Dear Ted:
Please read the context, using the wrong dictionary definition of a word will get an incorrect grade on your next reading test. A common error for children who read into words and not concepts. Just look at what Abbott and Costello did with their famous baseball skit. By not looking at context of words, Lou constantly misinterprets what Bud says. That is your problem too. The word "here" can mean this place, this point, or this time. The context determines which definition is accurate. The same goes for "sorry". Just because a definition of a word is a word with even more definitions does not equate one of those definitions with the word. This is a common falacy with equal and with definition. Taking your example, "sorry" is the same as "petinence" which is the same as "apology". "Sorry" can be used to mean one of three possible definitions. They have a match for the definition "feeling sorrow". "Sorry" does not have the definition of "expressing regret for ones misdeeds" that occurs with "petinence". They do not occur at the same time and context. Thus, if both definitions need to be expressed, you need to use "pentinence" because t contains both definitions (or any word that has both definitions). The same (as in identical) as means in all definitions of a word not just one. Then, they are similar, but not identical. Thus, to say you are "expressing regret for ones misdeeds", you need to use a word where that is one of its definitions. "Sorry" is not one of them.
The construct A is similar to B and B is similar to C does not imply that A is similar to C. That is a fundemental property of equivalences. A is equivalent (identical) to B if in all expressions using B, A can be used instead and vice versa. (mathematical background coming out). Using your method of definition, "lying" is similar to "on", "on" is similar to "light", "light" is similar to "day", "day" is similar to "period", "period" is similar to "flat", "flat" is similar to "level", and "level" is similar to "telling the truth". Thus, "Bill's lying to you" means "Bill's telling the truth to you". Obviously incorrect as "lying" is opposite of "telling the truth".
Thus, you method of defining is wrong and therefore you are wrong about "apology" being in the speech. See how wrong you can be?
Pete |
