navi tasan
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A-Seeing many of these people will be painful for me.
Can't this sentence mean two things:
1-If I see many of them, I will suffer.
2-There are many people here seeing each of whom will be painful for me.
I think the structure is itself capable of being used in two contexts.
B-Taking a lot of these pills will kill you.
One would assume B to mean that if you take a lot of them you will die but it could also mean:
C-A lot of these pills will kill you.
(This one seems unambiguous to me.)
Can't this sentence mean two things:
1-If I see many of them, I will suffer.
2-There are many people here seeing each of whom will be painful for me.
I think the structure is itself capable of being used in two contexts.
B-Taking a lot of these pills will kill you.
One would assume B to mean that if you take a lot of them you will die but it could also mean:
C-A lot of these pills will kill you.
(This one seems unambiguous to me.)