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My interpretation is that most people in these comments were correctly able to understand why "28" immediately came after "all".
by jjulius 2y ago
My interpretation is that most people in these comments were correctly able to understand why "28" immediately came after "all".
- Aurornis 2y agoScroll down to see the comments from people claiming “literally nothing happened” from the Panama papers, which they see this headline as confirming. As I write this, that thread is the 2nd comment thread from the top. It’s a very popular sentiment, despite being wrong.
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- yunohn 2y agoThat’s literally just one of many other comment threads.
- setr 2y agoYou’d have to also know that 28 is not the total number of people charged.
- lucb1e 2y agoThe headline says that's all that were charged. If I write "all four coal plants in germany blown up", nobody reads that and thinks germany had anything more or fewer than four coal plants. You don't need to know the total number because it tells you with "all [number] [objects]"
- setr 2y agoIf you wrote “all 4338 coal plants in Germany blown up”, I’d reasonably interpret it as 4338/4338 blew up. “All 4” doesn’t imply 4 total only because 4 is an unreasonably low count for total coal plants, not because “all [number] [object]” syntax is putting in the work. And of course, 28 is a reasonable count of total charged.