If you were to read the following sentences:
would you think that chances are essentially meant
it's likely
or meant
it's possible
?
I seek your thoughts; I am not sure what chances are means to most readers.
On that day, John Smith cut the paper. Chances are that John Smith cut the piece of paper because he wanted two scraps.
would you think that chances are essentially meant
it's likely
or meant
it's possible
?
I seek your thoughts; I am not sure what chances are means to most readers.
7 comments:
I'd go with "it's likely" -- anyway, it's likely that chances are that's what it means to me.
@misterparker
so when you read the phrase, your unbidden reading is probably "it's likely."
Thanks.
And let me be the first to say it:
that's a clown question, bro
I would also interpret as "'likely."
Is that a Linda G. line re a supremes thing?
But yeah, "Chances are" indubitably means, as Curly would say, and in common parlance & i guess parlance is a word, "likely" -- and i would go further and say it is actually understood by the majority of old people who would ever come across such journalistic parlance as meaning "most likely and almost soitenly, nyuk nyuk nyuk."
I somehow posted it twice, but then i deleted the redundancy so as to save bandwidth and so that no one would know i screwed up. Oh wait ...
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