Concept tag
#ambiguity
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Every invoice needs some approver: why does the order of quantifiers change the meaning?
One of my clients, a small business, has an internal policy that says: "Every invoice must be approved by some manager." Two of their managers have now spent a month arguing about it. One reads it as: each invoice needs a manager's…
Started by Harpreet Kaur Grewal4 replies -
I’m a scientific realist and, after twenty-two years in the army, a political realist. Is that inconsistent?
I retired from the army after twenty-two years, the last stretch on the DMZ. On a leadership course we read the classic realist authors on international politics: states pursue power and security, and moral principles do not govern what they do to…
Started by Choi Byeong-hun5 replies -
A translator cannot afford to be an anti-intentionalist
I want to defend a thesis that my academic friends find naive: translation makes anti-intentionalism impossible in practice, whatever its merits in theory. Here is why. Every page forces choices the source language does not force. German Sie or du maps onto…
Started by Claire Dubois5 replies