How long do you weigh?
I saw this on the internet. What does mean?
You've been told more than once that when you see something 'on the internet' that you intend to ask us about, you must provide a link to it so we can read it for ourselves in context.I saw this on the internet.
How long do you weigh?
I saw this on the internet. What does it mean?
I find it highly unlikely.Again, it is possible for "How long do you weigh?" to mean "How much TIME do you spend WEIGHING?"
I'd use mud rather than day.Perhaps the change in wording of my paraphrase will help my fellow natives to see this possible interpretation, which is clear as day.
I find it highly unlikely.
I'd use mud rather than day.
You've been told more than once that when you see something 'on the internet' that you intend to ask us about, you must provide a link to it so we can read it for ourselves in context.
Why not? How did you find that video? Your answer seems VERY suspicious.I couldn't copy or share the link.
It was a video. I couldn't copy or share the link.
There's an important difference between what a sentence could mean and what it does mean.
These two very different kinds of meaning (speaker meaning and sentence meaning) are often desperately confused on this forum. Two of the commonest kinds of post that we get here on the forum go like this:
Type 1) The poster gives us something that they have heard/seen and we try to interpret what the speaker/writer was trying to say.
Type 2) The poster tries to explain a thought that they have in mind, and we try to offer a sentence that best expresses what they mean.
Both of these concern speaker meaning. It seems clear to me that tufguy is asking a Type 1 question. In order to answer it properly, we need to see context. Without that, it seems very reasonable to me to say that there's an error somewhere, whether that be on tufguy's or the writer's side. I imagine that's what GoesStation was really trying to say.
I think that, if a learner wants to know what a sentence means, the learner has a right to know.
In this case, the sentence can't mean what you speculate the speaker does mean. The sentence doesn't mean what you speculate the speaker meant it to mean.
However, we can also say what the sentence itself means, or can mean if it is ambiguous, i.e., if it has more than one possible meaning.
In this case, the sentence itself has only one possible meaning. And if it has a meaning, then it is not meaningless, contrary to popular opinion in this thread.
Sentence meaning matters.
Yes, I understand your point entirely and I agree. It occurs to me though that since weigh can have two very different senses (I weigh 90 kg versus I weigh the vegetables), there are in fact two things that the sentence does mean (sentence meaning). Interpreting weigh as a two-place predicate (i.e. as in the latter of the two senses I've mentioned) is slightly less absurd, I think.