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Me ?Nah - everyone on the board thinks it means them, and that's a lot of meanings! 
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Doesn't this depend on your definition of what "is" is?
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I can think of plenty of technical terms having only one meaningI can even think of some that have none at all: if you read the marketing blurp on some high-tech gadgets  (anyone wants 4800 dpi prints?)
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Yes / No
Pretty much one meaning.
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Yes / No Pretty much one meaning. Having interacted with quite a number of women, I'm not sure that you are correct!
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Oh, Geoff. Now you're in for it.  Nice knowing ya...
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Hmmmmm, Geoff's bio....mechanic, Portland, Oregon
All right, that explains it then.
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Hi Ted, I like that one. It goes straight to the root of the matter. I think if meanings are considered identical only if the whole field that is covered by a word (extension) is fixed, then there are very few monosemous words. A therapist might consider a patient logorrheic while the patient himself feels perfectly normal . A truly polysemous word should be one which has several extension fields that are unconnected among themselves.
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Hmmmmm, Geoff's bio....mechanic, Portland, Oregon
All right, that explains it then.
So, which part explains it, the location or the employment? Notice I didn't say, "vocation," which would have been much more mellifluously alitterative, but it's the best I can do under the circumstances (Only have half a brain).
Nevertheless, your "explanation" suggests a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
I really do believe that most any word - even yes or no - can differ in its implications depending on gender. Any of you out there know of research supporting this?
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Geoff, the quantum mechanic, inquires: Any of you out there know of research supporting this? Well..... can't cite any scientific studies, but I know *some women who often use "yes" to mean "no" as in "Sure, I'd just love to go to the hockey game with you..." and "no" to mean "yes" as in, "Ahhh... you shouldn't have!" or "Don't go to any trouble" or  in other situations that are not appropriate to this venerable forum.
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