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Today’s Zits:

Something like a newspaper is the issue. Like in what way? Jeremy’s dad meant physically like a newspaper; Jeremy understood it as functionally like a newspaper. This is not an ambiguity, but an underspecification in the meaning of be like. It’s still problematic for communication.

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