Flying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agoIron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggestswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1219arrow-down18
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkIron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggestswww.theguardian.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squarefine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 hours agoIs 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.
minus-squareSplashJackson@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 hours agoI mean, I would. I’m sure there were at least a few flint axes still in use
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.
I mean, I would. I’m sure there were at least a few flint axes still in use