Re: Ambiguity

From	alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj)
Newsgroups	soc.culture.indian, alt.fan.jai-maharaj, alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage, misc.writing, soc.culture.usa, soc.culture.india
Subject	Re: Ambiguity
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Date	2018-01-30 01:36 +0000
Organization	Jai Maharaj
Message-ID	<20180129Dy2FePo48i@DyQH> (permalink)
References	<619e68a1-f8f9-464e-8f1f-a15464ac5222@googlegroups.com>

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In alt.usage.english, in article
<619e68a1-f8f9-464e-8f1f-a15464ac5222@googlegroups.com>,
David Kleinecke <dklei...@gmail.com> posted:
> 
> I just looked hard at the following sentence from the wild:
>    This is really interesting.
> 
> Does it mean
>    (1) It is a true fact that this is interesting
>    (2) This is very interesting
> or both?

The sentence makes no claim about something being true or
false.

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

http://bit.do/jaimaharaj

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Re: Ambiguity alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) - 2018-01-30 01:36 +0000
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