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This fundamentally changes the meaning of the title. "Yahoo probes possibly huge data breach" implies that there was a data breach, and it may or may not be hug
by potatoyogurt 10y ago
This fundamentally changes the meaning of the title. "Yahoo probes possibly huge data breach" implies that there was a data breach, and it may or may not be huge. "Yahoo probes possible huge data breach" implies that there may or may not have been a data breach to begin with.
- Edmond 10y agoNot at all. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/possibly http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/possibly If you really want to go there, then one could say any reference or dependence on possibility implies probability, which necessarily includes the possibility of the event not happening at all.
- alain94040 10y agoI don't think that was the point of the comment you are responding to. Possibly can only attach to "huge", so it parses as "probes [possibly huge] data breach". Whereas possible attaches to the whole data breach and parses as "probes possible [huge data breach]".