• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    “They can tell” implies "they can speak“

    That… isn’t what that phrase means in English. I assume you’re new to the language?

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      I’m not, and I’m perfectly aware of the ambiguity of “tell” meaning both “understand” and “communicate”. But so is the person who wrote that clickbait title.