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Caring children under 3
"Kevin Karplus" wrote in message Snip Unfortunately, "poor" has many different meanings in English. While most of us probably got the intended meaning ("impoverished"), it appears that at least one reader got a different meaning ("incompetent") and there are several other meanings that made some sense (such as "unfortunate"). If one were to make a remark on this forum that someone was a "poor mother", it would probably be blocked by the moderator as being uncivil, since the "incompetent" meaning seems intended. On the other hand, if someone wrote "you poor dear", it would seem like commiseration (or, perhaps, pity), since the "unfortunate" meaning is clearly intended. Context can help disambiguate meaning, but when talking about a "program for poor families", there is some ambiguity remaining. -- Kevin Karplus http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus life member (LAB, Adventure Cycling, American Youth Hostels) Effective Cycling Instructor #218-ck (lapsed) Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz Undergraduate and Graduate Director, Bioinformatics Affiliations for identification only. Thank you for a very good explanation. It's all interpretation of one. Everyone at some time interprets things differently. I liked & appreciated your answer. Well said. -- Mary~ Mom of 2 Sweeties on Earth and 2 Sweeties in Heaven |
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