French and English

Logic Level 2

Consider the following two sentences:

(1) "Le Diable" is the name of le Diable.

(2) "Le Diable" is the French name of the Devil.

Which of them can be fully understood by someone who speaks perfect English but doesn't know a single word of French?

Only sentence 2 Insufficient information Neither sentence Both sentences Only sentence 1

Denton Young by Denton Young , 47, USA

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Denton Young
Oct 19, 2019

Such a person would not be able to fully understand sentence 1, as the final two words of that sentence are in French.

Sentence 2 is a different story. The words in quotation marks are mentioned but not used, and their meaning is fully explained in English by the rest of the sentence. And after reading that sentence, such a person would now know a two-word French phrase.

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The first sentence can still be understood, though: consider the sentence '"El Cid" is the name of El Cid'. It makes sense grammatically - of course, it doesn't convey any information, but that's not the same as being understandable.

Chris Lewis - 1 year, 7 months ago

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