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#185 Implied Meaning in English

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Is There Ambiguity in British English?

Ambiguity is when something could have more than one meaning so obviously context is really really important because a lot of languages based on context and we're inferring the information based on that context maybe we could take a second to talk about these words imply and infer to imply. British people can be quite indirect so very often we don't like to say what we really want we can have make these hints and we imply what we want in a very indirect way. If I'm cold I will imply I want the window to be closed and my friend will infer my meaning based on the context of the situation hope that makes sense but this is really common as well this kind of implications it's ambiguity in

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