How do you understand titles if one word has several meanings and there is no context

[mrwroc]

In English one word can have many different meanings. For example:
ultimate:
1. [FONT=&quot]Being or happening at the end of a process; final.
2. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Being the best or most extreme example of its kind.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]


Assume you see the game title:
The Ultimate Doom

How do you know what it means? Because it can mean:
- final, last
- the best

These meanings are completely different.
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[Rover_KE]

You have to read about the game or start playing it.

 

[SoothingDave]

It would be a very dull world indeed if each word mapped to one, and only one, unique meaning.

That said, "ultimate" rarely means "last" nowadays.

 

[mrwroc]

It would be a very dull world indeed if each word mapped to one, and only one, unique meaning.

That said, "ultimate" rarely means "last" nowadays.

Haha :lol: In Polish one word has one meaning. Only several words have many meanings like in English.

 

[SoothingDave]

I'm sorry. There's no wordplay, no poetic ambiguity?

Must make it hard to be a lawyer, too.

 

[emsr2d2]

In Polish one word has one meaning. Only several words have many meanings like in English.

Your two sentences contradict each other. The first sentence means that all words in Polish have just one meaning. The second sentence says that several words in Polish have many meanings, just like in English. Which one is true?

 

[mrwroc]

I'm sorry. There's no wordplay, no poetic ambiguity?

Must make it hard to be a lawyer, too.

Hahahah - you have won. Now I have realised you are right. It is a good point.
SoothinDave and emsr2d2 :up: :-D