For All We Know
They've decided to hire Jack the f—ng Janitor for all I know. Nobody tells me anything. Thanks for adding the context. It helps a lot in understanding the sentences.
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What is your interpretation of my first example "For all I know, the mayor has resigned already. QuestionOverflow- without more context it's hard to say exactly what it means. A possible scenario could be: A group of people have gotten together to decide what the best way to convince the mayor to resign might be.
After lengthy debate, one of the group member asks, "What are we doing here? For all I we know, the mayor has resigned already. I don't believe that's correct- The not caring part.
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What is your interpretation of my last example "They've decided to hire Jack for all I know. Wouldn't it be clearer if one were to say "They could have hired Jack for all I know. Taking one of your examples, we can pretty much switch these in and out: To the best of my knowledge, the mayor has resigned already. In each example, the speaker is indicating a degree of uncertainty. On a side note, in: Regarding your side note, "for all I know" is redundant, but as StoneyB noted, it's added for emphasis to imply a degree of annoyance.
In my book, "For all I know" means a very different thing, from "To the best of my knowledge" because the latter is used when the speaker believes it to be true but allows for the possibility that he may be wrong, while the former suggests that the speaker does not believe it, but that he suggests it as an absurd possibility that could not be contradicted by the facts he has on hand thus demonstrating how little he actually knows. Clark would later perform the song in concert on February 6, , in tribute to Karen Carpenter, who had died two days before.
According to Richard, the English horn intro was originally played on guitar. They had run into Jose Feliciano in a restaurant, who was a big fan of theirs and wanted to play on one of their records. They went into the studio and the intro was devised by Feliciano, using his nylon string acoustic guitar.
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The next day, though, Richard got a phone call from Feliciano's manager, demanding that he be removed from the recording. Richard essentially did as requested and replaced Feliciano's guitar intro with that of Earle Dumler's oboe. This version was not released to the public until , with the release of The Singles: The song became a hit in the UK for Shirley Bassey in , at the same time as the Carpenters' version, with the two songs competing for chart strength.
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Herb Magidson " Lullaby of Broadway " Music: Dorothy Fields " Sweet Leilani " Music and lyrics: Harry Owens " Thanks for the Memory " Music: Leo Robin " Over the Rainbow " Music: Mack Gordon " Swinging on a Star " Music: Jimmy Van Heusen Lyrics: A possible scenario could be: A group of people have gotten together to decide what the best way to convince the mayor to resign might be. After lengthy debate, one of the group member asks, "What are we doing here?
For all I we know, the mayor has resigned already. I don't believe that's correct- The not caring part. What is your interpretation of my last example "They've decided to hire Jack for all I know. Wouldn't it be clearer if one were to say "They could have hired Jack for all I know.
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Taking one of your examples, we can pretty much switch these in and out: To the best of my knowledge, the mayor has resigned already. In each example, the speaker is indicating a degree of uncertainty. On a side note, in: Regarding your side note, "for all I know" is redundant, but as StoneyB noted, it's added for emphasis to imply a degree of annoyance.
In my book, "For all I know" means a very different thing, from "To the best of my knowledge" because the latter is used when the speaker believes it to be true but allows for the possibility that he may be wrong, while the former suggests that the speaker does not believe it, but that he suggests it as an absurd possibility that could not be contradicted by the facts he has on hand thus demonstrating how little he actually knows. I might use "for all I know" to indicate a lack of interest - "for all I know he has resigned, but I am not interested enough to find out" - but not for an absurd possibility.
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