Timeline for any problem these children have
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| Nov 28, 2023 at 22:14 | comment | added | Paul Tanenbaum | Exactly, @James K. The second sentence of your answer is the key. I offered my example of the warning about violating regulations because I read the OP as meaning, “I think that [the sentences] do imply that the children do indeed have problems/frustration,’” whereas it’s possible that the root-cause analysis is being proposed as a response in case it should turn out that the children have problems or feel frustrations. Context and intended meaning are everything. | |
| Nov 28, 2023 at 21:47 | comment | added | James K | Indeed, and this is why pragmatics is perhaps more important than grammar. For some regulations you would expect someone to violate them sooner or later. For other regulations you would expect (or hope) that they are never violated. So you can't understand something unless you understand the background. In the OP's example you would be confident that the children must have some kind of problem (or else why start this "root cause" investigation. But you only know that from our understanding, or interpretation, of the background to such a sentence | |
| Nov 28, 2023 at 15:21 | comment | added | Paul Tanenbaum | A warning like “Anyone caught violating these regulations will be prosecuted” does not imply an assumption that the regs will ever actually be violated. | |
| Nov 28, 2023 at 6:34 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |