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Navitasan Posted 8 years ago
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If you haven't seen any

1) If you haven't seen any of these movies, you won't understand the lecture.


Is this sentence ambiguous?

Are both these meanings possible?

a) If you haven't seen none of these movies, you won't understand the lecture.

b) If there are any of these movies that you haven't seen, you won't understand the lecture.


Gratefully,

Navi

  

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navitasan 1) If you haven't seen any of these movies, you won't understand the lecture. Is this sentence ambiguous? [ yes ] Are both these meanings possible?

— CalifJim

  • navitasan 1) If you haven't seen any of these movies, you won't understand the lecture.
  • Is this sentence ambiguous?
  • [ yes ] Are both these meanings possible?
  • [ yes ] a) If you haven't have seen none of these movies, you won't understand the lecture.
  • b) If there are any of these movies that you haven't seen, you won't understand the lecture.
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navitasan

1) If you haven't seen any of these movies, you won't understand the lecture.

Is this sentence ambiguous? [ yes ]

Are both these meanings possible? [ yes ]

a)

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