Listenever Posted 10 years ago
At 0:47, Amanda says:
And if anything goes wrong, we blame them. We have built in deniability.
In the second sentence, should 'built in' be written as 'built-in' (as a one-word adjective) or without the hyphen as a verb (as part of the perfect tense 'have built')?
I think the first interpretation is fine, but what's stopping you to see it as a perfect tense?
Grammar
We have built in deniability.
At 0:47, Amanda says:
And if anything goes wrong, we blame them. We have built in deniability.
In the second sentence, should 'built in' be written as 'built-in' (as a one-word adjective) or without the hyphen as a verb (as part of the perfect tense 'have built')?
I think the first interpretation is fine, but what's stopping you to see it as a perfect tense?
Top answer
I believe it is probably intended as "built-in deniability". This seems semantically more likely, and also the other interpretation might be expected to be contracted to "We've built in deniability" in this context (though this is not conclusive).
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I believe it is probably intended as "built-in deniability". This seems semantically more likely, and also the other interpretation might be expected to be contracted to "We've built in deniability" in this context (though this is not conclusive).
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