Re: This day

On 22/03/07, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> Leon wrote:
> <<
> If I'm not mistaken, quite a few languages, or at least conlangs, use
> "this
> day" for "today" (correct me if I'm wrong). How do they deal with
> situations
> like this:
>
> A: When should we plan the meeting?
> B: How about this day (points at calendar)?
>  >>
>
> Assuming you wouldn't use "that day", I don't see the problem.
> Not all ambiguities need to be disambiguated in a language, if
> they can be recovered from context.  For example, English doesn't
> have any way of distinguishing either in speech or in writing
> the two version of "all right" in the following sentences:
>
> (a) Did you get the answers all right?
Wrong. "all right" in the sense of "all of them right" is spelt as
I've spelt it. In the sense of "ok", the spelling is "alright".

Jeff
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