#verbalprobability — Public Fediverse posts
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We use verbal phrases to communicate probability. "Certain" is higher than "Will never happen", but how much higher? Also, phrases like "Highly probably" refer to a narrower range than "Presumably". A number of studies have categorized how such phrases are used in the English language. (1/3)
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