[Marco Sulla <marco.sulla.pyt...@gmail.com>] > I repeat, even the worst AI will understand from the context what I > meant.
Amazingly enough, the truth value of a proposition does not increase via repetition ;-) >>> bool(True * 1_000_000_000) True >>> bool(False * 1_000_000_000) False > But let me do a very rude example: > What if I said to Steven "I pretend immediate suck my $%#$"? Do you > think you and the others will not understand the sense? :D Yes! But, for me, solely because of the "suck my $%#$" part. I still have NO idea what the "pretend immediate" part means to you. I see Chris spelled out, in some detail, what "pretend" means to native English speakers. None of which make sense in this context either, unless you're saying you're going to "make believe" that someone is going to "immediate suck [your] $%#$". But, in that case, what you choose to fantasize about doesn't really seem relevant either. "Pretend" just doesn't make any more sense here than, say, "hippopotamus" would. > C'Mon, you are offending my poor intelligence. > > As I wanted to say, I pretend from Steven his excuses for his > insinuation, immediately. Is this clear now, Not to me, no. Although I bet the new phrasing "insinuation" gets much closer to your intent than "excuses". You think Steven was indirectly accusing you of unethical behavior (trolling for StackOverflow upvotes)?. That's not the sense I got from his original reply, but I can understand it if you did. If that's your complaint, I'll leave it to Steven to say what his intent was - and, if appropriate, to apologize for unintended offense. > or must I take an English course at Cambridge? This isn't about advanced English usage. It's about the ordinary meanings of ordinary words in (what should be!) simple contexts. If I said to you Capisco con il pesce il nodo insolito! I doubt you'd suggest I study Italian at the University of Bologna ;-) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/4LWHML3I2UWU3Y2K6ZJ7RMP352JUDSTK/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
