one of my legs or eyes got hurt

[tufguy]

Tufguy, do you understand why no one would ever say "One of my eyes or legs got hurt"?

Now, I have understood. We have only two legs and two eyes and it can be easily discerned which one is hurting and apart from this there was the punctuation issue as well.

 

[emsr2d2]

Tufguy, do you understand why no one would ever say "One of my eyes or legs got hurt"?

Now (no comma here) I [STRIKE]have understood[/STRIKE] understand. We have only two legs and two eyes and it can be easily discerned which one is hurting and, apart from this, there was the punctuation issue as well.

Yes! No one would say the eight words "One of my legs or eyes got hurt" as a single sentence. It would be absurd to say that. The speaker knows what was hurt. We have told you before that when you are giving us choices of sentences to use, you should write them separately. You should have written either:

Can I say "One of my legs got hurt" or "One of my eyes got hurt"?

OR

Can I say the following?
1) One of my legs got hurt?
2) One of my eyes got hurt?

 

[Raymott]

I'm not convinced. He's copied what he's been told. "There's a punctuation issue". I wouldn't take that for understanding.
No offense meant, tufguy. Anyhow, if you do understand the point, we shouldn't see it again.

 

[emsr2d2]

That's true. I think tufguy grasps that those eight words would not be said aloud as a sentence because "it can be easily discerned which one is hurting". However, I'm not sure now that he really understood that it was the layout of the question that was wrong. Hopefully, my last post will clear that up.

 

[jutfrank]

The issue here is that the original question in post #1 could be said aloud as an understandable and naturally worded question.

tufguy's problem (and by virtue also ours) is that he is still unaware of how questions should be presented on the forum here. He's simply writing down the words as he hears them in his head. There does seem to be some attempt at trying to present things properly (e.g. the misuse of speech marks) but I think that's more to do with years of the members here trying to drill into him the idea of separating the language used for making questions from the metalanguage (the language that the questions are about). What's clear is that he still doesn't have a robust understanding of this separation.