Guest,Tam: The problem with taking the high ground is that it makes you a target.
"I don't understand why you consider Zeugma and Syllepsis to be not synonymous as they both refer to the ability of a verb or an adjective to modify more than one noun."
The two terms have almost no similarity. And a verb does not "modify" a noun any more than a noun modifies a verb. Modification is done by adjectives(for nouns) and adverbs (for verbs).If the two terms were synonomous they would be interchangeable, which a quick reading of the dictionary will show is not the case.
My original point was that his sentence was capable of two different readings depending on whether the "Bad" was intended to categorise one, or two, nouns.

Nigel