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  Re: Ambiguity alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) - 2018-01-30 01:36 +0000
    Re: Ambiguity RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2018-01-29 23:49 -0700
      Re: Ambiguity alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) - 2018-01-30 20:37 +0000

#23367 — Re: Ambiguity

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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#23368

On 1/29/2018 6:36 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> 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.

Mr Kleinecke is asking to clarify which meaning of "really" is meant: 
(1) "in actuality" or (2) "very" (an intensifier)....r

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#23369

In article
<p4p45u020ff@news7.newsguy.com>,
RH Draney <dado...@cox.net> posted:
> 
> On 1/29/2018 6:36 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> > 
> > In alt.usage.english, in article
> > <619e68a1-f8f9-464e...@googlegroups.com>,
> > David Kleinecke <dkle...@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.
> 
> Mr Kleinecke is asking to clarify which meaning of
> "really" is meant: (1) "in actuality" or (2) "very" (an
> intensifier)....r

Thank you, really.

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj

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