Re:The Hacker News Generation (Afraid of Hard Work)
by dragonwriter on Thursday October 03, 2013 @08:03PM
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> If I say "He may be tall, but he's ugly"[1] his height is not in question.
The idiom may, depending on context, imply acceptance of the proposition that is preceded by "may", but more generally (whether or not that is the case) it means that that proposition's truth is irrelevant, and that the important thing is the subsequent proposition.
The idiom may, depending on context, imply acceptance of the proposition that is preceded by "may", but more generally (whether or not that is the case) it means that that proposition's truth is irrelevant, and that the important thing is the subsequent proposition.