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Originally Posted by NatCh
Apropos of nothing but my own picking of nits (this is a hang up of mine, I can't help myself):
Inferring is what the listener/reader does.
Implying is what the speaker/writer does.
With my thanks for your patience, I now return you to your irregularly scheduled discussion.  |
NatCh, I agree completely with picking this nit
but I wasn't sure whether I was reading the post a little wrongly or if the poster used the wrong term.
One of my favorite authors, Ed Howdershelt, uses "infer" both ways (i.e. to mean infer and also to mean imply) and it was driving me crazy so I looked it up & found that "infer" can be use (according to my college dictionary) to mean "imply". It still drives me crazy.
Along the same general lines, I wish we would invent the word "exply" to relate to explicit as imply does to implicit. 