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The different usage of words and their meanings in English is interesting and makes me think this weird miscommunication is why we have so many arguments. In my
by hk1337 4y ago
The different usage of words and their meanings in English is interesting and makes me think this weird miscommunication is why we have so many arguments. In my everyday, the article would be referring to nearsightedness, short sighted would be when someone doesn’t think through all the possible things, lacking foresight. By definition it’s both but in every day use it’s not.
- ultra_nick 4y agoHomographs are a pain for natural language processing. Homophones are a pain for us bad spellers.
- zymhan 4y agoYeah, given that this is an Economist article, I assumed they meant "lack of foresight", since they often write similar titles
- wrycoder 4y agoThat's the article I was expecting, also. Lack of foresight these days is a serious problem - with the mis-education current in the US, the younger cohorts are losing the historical perspective developed so painfully over the last four thousand years. What to do is not so important as what not to do.
- martyvis 4y agoIn everyday use in this part of the world you never hear the word near-sighted. In Australia and I think a lot of other British English countries, short-sighted is the plain English term for myopic. (But the thing is most of us know that the US uses the other term)
- wiether 4y agoI'm in the same boat; I was expecting to read an article about managers/CEOs taking short-sighted decisions. To be noted, I'm French, English is not my native language so when I realized my mistake I thought that was because in the case of this title it was obvious that it is about eyes but I just didn't knew how to catch the clues.