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by zahlman
597 days ago
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>As the judge of this test, I interpret your answer as incorrect. This makes you a cheating administrator in this hypothetical, >I expected the phrase, "the last word in this line" to be underlined. ... because this expectation is not valid. Quotation marks are not merely needed to make the question "unambiguous"; they are needed to make your interpretation possible. |
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Actually, it doesn't.
> this expectation is not valid.
Actually, it is.
> Quotation marks are not merely needed to make the question "unambiguous"; they are needed to make your interpretation possible.
Actually, they are optional for that purpose, not required. Without them, the meaning is indeed ambiguous, with my interpretation indeed being valid.
The fact that we came up with 2 different, equally valid interpretations, just goes to show that the question is ambiguous.
Some other equally valid interpretations are explained by another poster here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41912790