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The South Korean Defence Ministry says North Korea test-fired short-range missiles off its western coast in the Yellow Sea on Friday morning.

Does the sentence mean that the missiles were test-fired from North Korea's western coast, which is in the Yellow Sea?

Thanks in advance.

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I believe it means they were fired from sea - perhaps off of a boat. The boat was in the Yellow Sea near the Western coast.

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Or does it mean what it doesn't say: cabotage sabotage?

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solipsister wrote:

Or does it mean what it doesn't say: cabotage sabotage?

Hi Solipsister

I don't understand what you're talking about.

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Yoong Liat wrote:

solipsister wrote:
Or does it mean what it doesn't say: cabotage sabotage?

Hi Solipsister

I don't understand what you're talking about.

Neither do any of us native english speakers yoong, I'd ignore it.

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Thanks, Dadpad.

Being a non-native speaker, I sometimes don't understand certain words. Thanks for the advice: I'll ignore what she wrote.

Best regards.

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dadpad wrote:

Yoong Liat wrote:
solipsister wrote:
Or does it mean what it doesn't say: cabotage sabotage?

Hi Solipsister

I don't understand what you're talking about.

Neither do any of us native english speakers yoong, I'd ignore it.

However, it has a meaning, even though it's too cryptical.

Cabotage is going from port to port in a boat.

Sabotage is destroying the installations of the enemy.

The inference is now obvious...

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Yoong Liat wrote:

The South Korean Defence Ministry says North Korea test-fired short-range missiles off its western coast in the Yellow Sea on Friday morning.

Does the sentence mean that the missiles were test-fired from North Korea's western coast, which is in the Yellow Sea?

Thanks in advance.

According to the news, the missiles were fired INTO the Yellow Sea, off North Koreas western coast.
As I read the news, the missiles were fired from shore and fell into the sea.

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dadpad wrote:

Yoong Liat wrote:
solipsister wrote:
Or does it mean what it doesn't say: cabotage sabotage?

Hi Solipsister

I don't understand what you're talking about.

Neither do any of us native english speakers yoong, I'd ignore it.

Yes I 'd like to get back to you on that dad

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Thanks, Mysteryman.

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The sentence as it stands is ambiguous. NK could be test firing them off its own coast, or it could be firing them into the sea off SK's coast. They could be fired from ships or could be fired from land. There's not enough info in the sentence to make it perfectly clear. That's probably the nature of pronouns, and prepositions, in English. One sentence may not be enough. It's why you almost always need context, which MM provided. One sentence often just can't carry the weight.

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