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Semantics Is Underspecified
Lizzo: Semantics is underspecified. We use words to get us part of the way there. But then as we've seen in our examples, we use context and we use real world knowledge. Lizzo hard launches her boyfriend on social media ahead of the 2023 Grammy Awards. What does this mean? Do you guess? Let's move on to our words of the week.
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