English is really awful..
I know that we technically only talked about ambiguity in the first few days of classes, but the more and more time I learn about the symbolic way to express statements, the more and more English becomes generally ambiguous. On the tutorial exercise, there was one question that could either be read as A and B implies C, or A or B implies C. While the rest of the questions were taken up in relatively short time, this question took maybe 20x longer than the rest, just because of how ambiguous the English statement was.
By this point, I'm predicting that I'll be trying to avoid using as many ambiguous terms as possible in normal conversation, just because of this course. I'm sure people will love talking to me.
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