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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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"Should be fine"
Please let me know how you would interpret this conversation:
Day 1:
person 1: "Hi, is your car available tomorrow from 2:20 - 4:00"
person 2: "dunno" "if you need it, should be fine"
person 1: "Thanks, just to manhatttan and back"
Would you take the sentence "should be fine" as a confirmation - that you can use that person's car tomorrow?
this has been bugging me for a few days - because person 2 claims that it wasn't a confirmation - but a "perhaps"
I want to make sure that my question was clear, and her car was perhaps confirmed when I conversed with her.
let me know!!
thanks!
Day 1:
person 1: "Hi, is your car available tomorrow from 2:20 - 4:00"
person 2: "dunno" "if you need it, should be fine"
person 1: "Thanks, just to manhatttan and back"
Would you take the sentence "should be fine" as a confirmation - that you can use that person's car tomorrow?
this has been bugging me for a few days - because person 2 claims that it wasn't a confirmation - but a "perhaps"
I want to make sure that my question was clear, and her car was perhaps confirmed when I conversed with her.
let me know!!
thanks!
Top answer
Anonymous Would you take the sentence "should be fine" as a confirmation - that you can use that person's car tomorrow? I would take it as "I expect that that will be all right". It's almost "Yes, you can use the car", but not quite.
- Anonymous Would you take the sentence "should be fine" as a confirmation - that you can use that person's car tomorrow?
- I would take it as "I expect that that will be all right".
- It's almost "Yes, you can use the car", but not quite.
- Expectations don't always work out as we think they will, so it does include the idea that the person believes all will be fine, but even so, something may occur that changes everything and therefore makes it impossible for you to use the car.
- That said, I would take it as a confirmation even though it is not literally a confirmation.
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AnonymousWould you take the sentence "should be fine" as a confirmation - that you can use that person's car tomorrow?I would take it as "I expect that that will be all right". It's almost "Yes, you can use the car", but not quite. Expectations don't always work out as we think they will, so it does include the idea that the person believes all will
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