I am not the one who should be...

[navi tasan]

1) I am not the one who should be learning from you.

I think that logically that means that there is someone else who should be learning from you. But couldn't that sentence be used to imply that you should be learning from me?
That is not what the sentence is saying, but don't people use it that way sometimes.

I am not the one who should be learning from you. You should be learning from me.

To me, that doesn't work from a logical viewpoint. But don't people say things like that?

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[Tarheel]

"I am not the one who should be learning from you." (It should be somebody else.)

For the other one, try: "You shouldn't be teaching me. I should be teaching you."

There is a clear difference between the two.

 

[emsr2d2]

The initial reaction of most English speakers to "I'm not the one who should be learning from you" would be that the speaker thinks it should be the other way round - "I shouldn't be learning from you - you should be learning from me".
It would take a fairly unusual context for it to mean "I shouldn't be learning from you. Someone else should be learning from you".

 

[jutfrank]

It all depends on how you say it. Like emsr2d2, I first read it with the stress on the final you, which means that you should be learning from me.

Remember that meaning often comes from how we stress certain words. Try saying the sentence in different ways to see if you can hear any difference in meaning.

 

[Tarheel]

I mentally put the stress on not .

 

[Barque]

I think that logically that means that there is someone else who should be learning from you. But couldn't that sentence be used to imply that you should be learning from me?

It could mean either, depending on context. Without context I wouldn't know what you mean.

but don't people use it that way sometimes?.

Yes.