Poll: The pool was deceptively shallow
The pool was deceptively shallow |
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Votes: 460
Comments: 14
Added: January 2004
Comments:
| kelina - 25th November 2005 19:10 |
| ok that's good but the teacher hve very large desipline |
| JJ - 11th December 2006 21:22 |
| blatantly the former |
| Mark Spitz - 1st October 2007 13:20 |
| Maybe not that blatantly, though I agree that it is the former. |
| trippe - 24th July 2008 22:58 |
| It is the latter, because deceptively means "in a deceptive or deceiving manner" so read: "The pool was, in a deceptive or deceiving manner, shallow" meaning that it was indeed shallow, though deceptively |
| Yazzy - 29th April 2009 17:12 |
| I just looked the sentence up and it said the sentence could be changed to - The pool is shallower than it looks or The pool is shallow, despite its appearance |
| Cody - 14th October 2009 02:42 |
| Wow! 50%/50% with 150 votes for either side. I'm pretty sure this is option two. The pool was shallow. It was also deceptively shallow which means it seemed deeper. Therefore it was shallower than it seemed |
| Statuess - 1st November 2009 22:01 |
| Wow, only one vote difference! I voted in favour of 'deeper than it looked' (152 votes vs. 151 to 'shallower'), and am honestly baffled by how close it is! I would assume everyone understood that it appeared shallow in a deceiving manner, so therefore was deeper than expected. :s But on answers.com, they cite a survey with a majority in the other direction (shallower)... |
| Hans - 18th November 2009 21:47 |
| Definitely the latter, and now it's tied! |
| sekrit - 3rd December 2009 18:23 |
| This is a classic, already debated, example of ambiguous language. Does anyone have the citation? |
| Shallow Mind - 25th March 2010 21:26 |
| I'm surprised that so many people can not pause and dissect the sentence accurately. The words used have straight forward definitions, as trippe and Yazzy have demonstrated for us. |
| Alan - 20th September 2010 08:19 |
| The pool was (adjective) shallow. The pool was definitely shallow, I'm surprised this is a close vote. |
| Supoki - 13th May 2011 10:49 |
| Don't be fooled by the closeness of the vote. The answer is B. |
| Evan - 15th July 2011 06:20 |
| I voted b so I could post a comment, but in fact neither a nor b is correct. The proper interpretation is that the pool *is* shallow, but the fact of its shallowness may mislead you about something else. A better example is "the rules of chess are deceptively simple," meaning that the rules are simple but chess is complex. |
| Chris - 17th July 2011 13:27 |
| Your example contradicts your claim- simple/complex are opposites so how is that something else? |
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