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Re:Shirt Without Stripes by chx on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:27PM (#22930909)
It gets even worse: "The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they advocated peace." the meaning of this sentence in 1968 is different than in 2020!
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Re:Shirt Without Stripes by 6510 on Monday April 20, 2020 @10:28PM (#22931228)
And then there are those who are able to say things that [intentionally] have different meaning to different audience members.
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Re:Shirt Without Stripes by animalCrax0rz on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:43PM (#22931014)
Totally. The general problem is indeed difficult to solve, but I've seen lots of great work in this area.
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