what are the doubles meanings in this sentence

[dremoo]

what are the double meanings in this sentence


i saw the man with telescope

 

[JMurray]

What [STRIKE]are[/STRIKE] is the double meaning in this sentence?

I saw the man with a/the telescope.

It could mean either:
1) I saw the man who was in possession of a telescope.
or
2) I saw the man by looking at him through a telescope.

not a teacher

 

[dremoo]

thank you very much

 

[emsr2d2]

Thank you very much.

What about "L.A. voters approve urban renewal by landslide"?

You may not have noticed the corrections which were made to your original post, in post #2 by JMurray. I have made similar corrections to this post (see above).

- Start every sentence with a capital letter.
- End every sentence with the relevant punctuation mark.

"Landslide" is written as only one word, not two.

Can you try to guess at the two meanings? If not, can you give us just one of the meanings?

 

[dremoo]

I think it means:
The majority of voters approve urban renewal.

 

[emsr2d2]

I think it means:
The majority of voters approve urban renewal.

You are partly right, but a landslide means by a very large majority.

The other meaning, which is very unlikely but possible due to the ambiguity of the statement, is "LA voters have approved the idea that urban renewal should be achieved by using a landslide (also known as a landslip)."

Look up all the meanings of "landslide" in a dictionary.

 

[Barb_D]

Actually, I think the anticpated second meeting was "in the area that is by (near) a [prior] landslide" rather than using a landslide as a mechanism for ubran renewal.

 

[emsr2d2]

Actually, I think the anticpated second meeting was "in the area that is by (near) a [prior] landslide" rather than using a landslide as a mechanism for ubran renewal.

I hadn't considered that.

 

[Barb_D]

Southern California actually experiences landslides with all-too-much frequency. Unless you were accustomed to images of the cliffs of Dover sliding into the sea, I'm not surprised it wasn't the first thing on your mind though!

 

[emsr2d2]

Southern California actually experiences landslides with all-too-much frequency. Unless you were accustomed to images of the cliffs of Dover sliding into the sea, I'm not surprised it wasn't the first thing on your mind though!

Trust me, the white cliffs of the South coast are disappearing into the sea at an alarming rate and this year's unusual rainfall has actually caused a very high number of landslides/landslips in the UK.

 

[dremoo]

Thanks

 

[emsr2d2]

Thanks.

I recommend you get into the habit of starting every sentence with a capital letter and ending every sentence with the appropriate punctuation mark. Otherwise, you will become very bored of our continually correcting simple errors in red.

 

[Rover_KE]

. . .you will become very bored of our continually correcting simply errors in red.

. . .and we will soon lose interest in continually having to do it.

One other thing, dremoo: whilst your thanks are appreciated, you don't need to send them in a separate post.
We are all happy to accept a simple click on the Like button as your acknowledgement of our help.

Rover:-D

 

[Barb_D]

Trust me, the white cliffs of the South coast are disappearing into the sea at an alarming rate and this year's unusual rainfall has actually caused a very high number of landslides/landslips in the UK.

Oh, I didn't know that! That makes me sad, even though they aren't "my" cliffs!

 

[BobK]

Trust me, the white cliffs of the South coast are disappearing into the sea at an alarming rate and this year's unusual rainfall has actually caused a very high number of landslides/landslips in the UK.

:up: But erosion of the East coast is much faster.

b