• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    Howsabout just putting the word “Some” at the start, to remove all ambiguity?

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 hours ago

      Is that sentence structure ambiguous?

      If you said “Iron Age men fought with Iron Swords” you wouldn’t say that statement is clearly false because it’s not true of all iron age men.

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      9 hours ago

      Because people can figure that out by a combination of using a bit of common sense and reading the article in any doubt. And I say “people” even though there’s at least one person who can’t, and people will understand anyway.

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        5 hours ago

        It’s not well and good to assume that common sense is a real thing, seeing the amount of maroons congregating since the proliferation of the Internet. People are easily led, misled, outraged or cowed. Case in point, Flat Earthers