Introduction to Vague Language Explored

Abstract

The danger of being known as someone who is fascinated by vague language is that you run the risk of friends and colleagues using it just to humour you. Thus a University of Edinburgh colleague once ended an email to me, ‘See you whenever it is, if not before,’ and another, also from the university, engaged me in this email exchange: Colleague: So do you know about the charity ceilidh at St Brides Centre Saturday week then? Me: On 4th yeah — are you going? Colleague: I’m certainly thinking about it. I’m inclined to. How’s that for being wishy-washy? These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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