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7/9/2025, 5:44:24 AM
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>If you said;
>>"I'm going to the grill,"
>then this is an example of imprecise language.
>It is imprecise language because people would not imagine a "barbeque" upon being told "the grill".
>They would think you meant an oven grill, or salamander, or the blacktop, etc., without prior context that both parties in said conversation were already AT or going to be at a barbecque; but even there, in that situation pregnant with context, the language is imprecise, for on the part of the listener they might conclude;
>>"what do you mean the grill? We're at a barbeque, is there a second cooking arrangement here I didn't know about? Are we having BOTH grilled and barbequed food here?",
>perhaps quite reasonably, and that person would still be in-grounds for rational human communication.
>If you said;
>>"I'm going to the grill,"
>then this is an example of imprecise language.
>It is imprecise language because people would not imagine a "barbeque" upon being told "the grill".
>They would think you meant an oven grill, or salamander, or the blacktop, etc., without prior context that both parties in said conversation were already AT or going to be at a barbecque; but even there, in that situation pregnant with context, the language is imprecise, for on the part of the listener they might conclude;
>>"what do you mean the grill? We're at a barbeque, is there a second cooking arrangement here I didn't know about? Are we having BOTH grilled and barbequed food here?",
>perhaps quite reasonably, and that person would still be in-grounds for rational human communication.
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