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Near | Adverb 1. Close by 2. Almost So both interpretations are correct. This reminds me of a comic strip (I think) where they're training someone work
by idbehold 4y ago
Near | Adverb
1. Close by
2. Almost
So both interpretations are correct. This reminds me of a comic strip (I think) where they're training someone working at a nuclear reactor and the instructor says, "Just remember: you can never have too much water in a nuclear reactor." The phrase can be interpreted to mean two very different things.
- ec109685 4y agoI had to Google for the other interpretation of that: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/282388/interpretation-of-ambiguous-sentence-you-can-t-put-too-much-water-into-a-nuclea https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/282388/interpret...
- bscphil 4y agoFrom a quick search it looks like it was S10E06 of Saturday Night Live. The skit is at 53:45. https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s-10-e-06-ed-asner-the-kinks https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s-10-e-06-ed...
- blahedo 4y agoAnd "miss" is a noun in this phrase, so the adverb usage of "near" (which I am, um, aware of, thanks) is not especially relevant to this analysis.
- Vecr 4y agoActually I think you can have too much water in some reactors, it's called "going solid".