Timeline for does any change in the meaning of the context?
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| Oct 15, 2016 at 13:58 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'm not sure what you mean by that. The "problem" with your example is that the sequence of the different clauses leads to a parsing error. We start off assuming the subject of the verb define / defining will be "the readers not accustomed with this field", but then we realise that doesn't make sense so we have to backtrack and re-interpret the text with the writer as the subject (because he's the one who will do the defining, not those readers). Everyone must have this same problem - it's just a matter of how much time/effort they need to figure out how to parse it. | |
| Oct 15, 2016 at 1:48 | comment | added | tosh | I too find "to define" is problematic. | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 17:02 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |