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Green apples are delicious — two three-line exchanges
Read this short exchange. A: "Green apples are delicious." B: "Huh? Aren't they better when they're ripe?" A: "No, I meant Granny Smiths." A said "Green apples" intending Granny Smiths — and of course A thought it would be understood that way. But that "claim" never reached B. So — where was it lost? Now, the next one.