Internet Monk<\/a> shared this wonderful example of the problems with claims about the \u201cplain meaning\u201d of a text. The sign above is from the UK. And so, while an American will understand it to\u00a0be prohibiting\u00a0people who serve as coaches of a particular uniquely American sport from entering, it not only refers to soccer, but to coaches in the sense of buses.<\/p>\nContext matters more in some contexts than others. But it always matters.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Internet Monk shared this wonderful example of the problems with claims about the \u201cplain meaning\u201d of a text. The sign above is from the UK. And so, while an American will understand it to\u00a0be prohibiting\u00a0people who serve as coaches of a particular uniquely American sport from entering, it not only refers to soccer, but to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":34627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1979,2165,3514,4563,11494],"class_list":["post-34616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","tag-coaches","tag-context","tag-football","tag-hermeneutics","tag-soccer"],"yoast_head":"\n
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