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Old February 25, 2017, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar View Post
@Perikles: You're talking as if there were no context ever to know what the word would mean anytime.
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.
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