Timeline for Grammaticality: 'We invited more people than wanted to come.'
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:11 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 5, 2015 at 16:53 | answer | added | TBridges42 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 2:29 | comment | added | Jasper | Even an ambiguity about number can be expensive. For example, singular vs. plural, or four vs. five. For that matter, "the number of people who wanted to come" does not say exactly how many people wanted to come, nor does it say whether all of the people who came wanted to come, nor whether all of the people who wanted to come actually came. Furthermore, we do not even know whether the event has happened yet! | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 2:25 | comment | added | Jasper | @LePressentiment -- The "origin of your dread" is the legal principle that if there is more than one reasonable way to interpret a contract clause, the author of the contract clause does not get to choose the interpretation. Instead, the author's counterparty gets to choose the interpretation (if the contract does not state which interpretation to use.) Depending on the clause, that could be expensive! This particular example does not seem ambiguous to my (American) ear, but there are many similar statements (in which clauses have implied subjects, verbs, or objects) that are ambiguous. | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 1:46 | answer | added | Gary | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 10:38 | answer | added | curiousdannii | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 2:22 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/568959009513971713 | ||
| Feb 16, 2015 at 1:16 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | Wow, maybe you should ask this on linguistics stack :) I've been thinking about it and it's very interesting! | |
| Feb 15, 2015 at 19:59 | history | asked | user8712 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |