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[quote user="Pasadena Sub"][quote user="Bucyrus"] Regarding this sentence:"When the word went out that Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware was to be the Democratic vice presidential candidate, an immediate shout of praise arose from people who love trains."This sentence does not necessarily mean ALL people who love trains, and more importantly, the meaning is not a matter of individual interpretation.  The sentence only goes so far in its meaning.  The word people might mean all people, but it might not.  Without a modifier specifying quantity of people, there is no quantity specified.  The only implied specification of quantity is that the word people has to mean more than one person. [/quote]If I were to write..."I am highly annoyed with people who defend Mr. Phillips on this thread."...you would interpret this to mean that I include you and your previous post in my statement, even though technically my statement could mean one, some or all of the people that have defended his writing on this thread. By the way, I am not annoyed in any way with any of the posts on this thread, I only stated that to make a point [:)][/quote]If you said, "I am highly annoyed with people who defend Mr. Phillips on this thread," I absolutely would not interpret it to mean that you are including me and my above post.  Why would I?  Words mean things, and my post was about the meaning of words.  My post had nothing to do with Mr. Phillips.And if I were discussing Mr. Phillips, I would not defend him because I disagree with his political position, which he conveys in his columns.  Yet what I said about the meaning of words still stands.
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