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IAmBroom
14 days ago
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> this sentence doesn't quite make sense in English
> The sentence has
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precisely opposed interpretations.
Muphry's Law still holds true.
bpavuk
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TIL that "Muphry's law" is a deliberate misspelling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
dbspin
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Always, but perhaps not in this case. I wasn't correcting spelling, but coherence. The comment I replied to includes a sentence that is both ambiguous and non-nonsensical. It doesn't seem to be an issue of grammar, but rather clarity of thought.
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> The sentence has to precisely opposed interpretations.
Muphry's Law still holds true.