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Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar
@Perikles: You're talking as if there were no context ever to know what the word would mean anytime.
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That was not my intention. Obviously there is a context where
esperar clearly means
expect, and another where it clearly means
hope. But in the case of this thread title, the context means it could be either. To me, the difference between
expect and
hope is so great that I have difficulty with the idea that the sense is broad enough to mean either, or both at the same time.
And I don't really see the comparison with
to know, and why that should be a problem.
Esperar is one verb with two meanings where there could be an ambiguity.
To know is one verb where there can be no ambiguity, because the object determines whether it is
conocer or
saber.
What really puzzles me is why nobody else sees what I perceive to be a problem.