Timeline for Double meaning for "Family matters"?
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| Feb 11, 2019 at 8:47 | vote | accept | Teleporting Goat | ||
| Jan 24, 2017 at 23:37 | comment | added | Ronald Sole | @TeleportingGoat Without the context, there's no way of knowing. It's like asking whether the words sanction an action mean permitting it or penalising it. Only context makes the meaning clear. | |
| Jan 23, 2017 at 7:43 | vote | accept | Teleporting Goat | ||
| Feb 11, 2019 at 8:47 | |||||
| Jan 23, 2017 at 2:15 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jan 23, 2017 at 5:55 | |||||
| Jan 23, 2017 at 1:57 | comment | added | user3169 | As you say, there is more than one definition for "matters", but you can't know which one it is without any context. I think both that you mention are popular. | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 22:39 | comment | added | Teleporting Goat | @RonaldSole I'm asking for when it's the title of something, there's often no context. | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 22:27 | comment | added | Ronald Sole | Whether the expression Family matters is intended to be ambiguous, depends entirely on the context and the speaker. However, the word matters" is often used in such ambiguous fashion. One example is the BBC radio programme entitled *Business Matters. | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 18:19 | answer | added | WRX | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 18:05 | history | asked | Teleporting Goat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |