On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 1:27 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing to emphasize is that noun rank and verb rank are totally
> different.  The use of the same word probably causes much confusion - or
> worse, causes a false sense of understanding where there SHOULD be the
> confusion that precedes understanding.

I expect that this would be more of an "expert issue" than a "beginner issue".

English words (and, natural language words, in general) tend to have a
lot of definitions. Frequently used words tend to have more
definitions than infrequently used words.

So I expect that beginners are more going to be wanting relevant
examples (though relevance will depend on their focus). I think that
the contextually specific difference don't start bothering you until
much later.

That said, people who have done a lot of coding do tend to pick up
allergies for various contextual ambiguities that they don't have a
good algorithm for. This particularly plagues people who have had some
training in parsing.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul
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