27 Jun
2020
27 Jun
'20
6:09 a.m.
On 27/06/20 4:33 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Take the word out of the sentence, and does the sentence still mean the same thing? Then the word was needless. That's an objective test.
But in something a fuzzy as natural language, "the same thing" is not a boolean value. How close in meaning does it have to be? Different people will have different opinions. -- Greg