Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Translator: when you say glass,
are we talking flute, coupe, shot glass, balloon, tumbler, highball, schooner, snifter, tankard?
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Guillaumian linguist: the cup’s potential meaning is a dual movement from full to empty and back. Its effective meaning consists in an interception by the speaker of either movement, yielding a combination of movement and position.
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Linguist: quantities are described with regard to a reference state; thus we can efficiently convey whether the cup was more recently full or empty
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Translator: when you say glass,
are we talking flute, coupe, shot glass, balloon, tumbler, highball, schooner, snifter, tankard?
سچا پیار غریبوں کا باقی ہے کھیل نصیبوں کا
سچا پیار غریبوں کا باقی ہے کھیل نصیبوں کا