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Re: Ambiguity

From RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net>
Newsgroups soc.culture.indian, alt.fan.jai-maharaj, alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage, misc.writing, soc.culture.usa
Subject Re: Ambiguity
Date 2018-01-29 23:49 -0700
Organization NewsGuy.com
Message-ID <p4p45u020ff@news7.newsguy.com> (permalink)
References <619e68a1-f8f9-464e-8f1f-a15464ac5222@googlegroups.com> <20180129Dy2FePo48i@DyQH>

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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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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

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