Karen Lewellen writes:
> nope,
> suggest means well suggest.
> if the question had been or if there had been no question,
> a recommendation might have be considered as to have been implied.
Well, let's try the dictionary. May I suggest Wordnet's #1, #3, and
possibly #5 would apply as well.
May I also note that your interpretation is #2 on the word list order,
and mine is #1?
dict suggest
3 definitions found
>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Suggest \Sug*gest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suggested}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Suggesting}.] [L. suggestus, p. p. of suggerere to
put under, furnish, suggest; sub under + gerere to carry, to
bring. See {Jest}.]
1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be
thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all
the ways of sensation and reflection. --Locke.
2. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to
intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
3. To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt. [Obs.]
Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested. --Shak.
4. To inform secretly. [Obs.]
Syn: To hint; allude to; refer to; insinuate.
>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Suggest \Sug*gest"\, v. i.
To make suggestions; to tempt. [Obs.]
And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or
seeming-genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting
still. --Tennyson.
>From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
suggest
v 1: make a proposal, declare a plan for something [syn:
{propose},
{advise}]
2: imply as a possibility; "The evidence suggests a need for
more clarification" [syn: {intimate}]
3: drop a hint; intimate by a hint [syn: {hint}]
4: suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine;
"Tetracycline is indicated in such cases" [syn: {indicate}]
[ant: {contraindicate}]
5: call to mind or evoke [syn: {evoke}, {paint a picture}]
> assuming one is reading more into the he sentence than needful, as you seem
> to have been doing.
> That the word suggestion was used, and as a question, was not or does not
> to me imply a recommendation.
> It was directed to me.
> Karen
> as Miss Teach
