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Re: This day

From:Sai Emrys <sai@...>
Date:Thursday, March 22, 2007, 20:39
That seems pretty normal to me... 'this' or other referents have to be
interpreted in context. If there's no explicit pointing, then you
default to some presumed referent.

"Next week" is worse. :-P (E.g. if today is Monday and I say we're
going to meet next Friday... and then I say it's going to be "moved
back" one day... which of the four possibilities are you thinking of?)

- Sai

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>