• ABCDE@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It doesn’t, it refers to one but can be of many. A person is attending a football match for the first time today. It doesn’t mean no one else is.

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      7 months ago

      No. The sentence you posted implies a football match was never before attended by any person.

      If you want to say one of many, you should say Some person/someone.

      Or you can qualify the person. E.g. A non-american astronaut will be landing on the moon for the first time.

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        7 months ago

        Nope, because you know football matches have been attended by people. Ignoring basic facts doesn’t make your understand correct, it’s silly.

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          7 months ago

          Yes, so we are talking about a sentence in the headline where we don’t have extra context, yet you make an sentence where it is clear the sentence is stupid based on outside context and argue it should be interpreted the other way around because otherwise we know it is stupid. Amazing logic.

          Just because I can deduce what you actually meant does not mean the sentence is correct.

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              7 months ago

              I for one don’t know how many astronauts are being sent to the moon when. And if most people do, no point writing this article, is there?

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                  7 months ago

                  So what? No one is saying the sentence says or implies for the first time. It just implies one person will be going this time.

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                    7 months ago

                    So you know the context. It doesn’t imply that, just a faulty assumption/logical fallacy.