| ▲ | withinboredom 9 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“The right socket” can only be implied one way when talking about a body just like you only have one right hand despite the fact that it is on my left when looking at you. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | esrauch an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Right hand" is practically a bigram that has more meaning, since handedness is such a common topic. Also context matters, if you're talking to someone you would say "right shoulder" for _their_ right since you know it's an observer with different vantage point. Talking about a scene in a photo "the right shoulder" to me would more often mean right portion of the photo even if it was the person's left shoulder. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | marcellus23 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I think the fact that anyone in this thread thinks it's ambiguous is proof by definition that it's ambiguous. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | pphysch 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Plug into right power socket" Same language, opposite meaning because of a particular noun + context. I think the only thing obvious here is that there is no obvious solution other than adding lots of clarification to your prompt. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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