Erin's Wonderful Word--admit

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 7/14/05 3:36:45 AM, goranson at DUKE.EDU writes:


> Or if her true intention was not admit as confess but admit as let in,
> then,,,,
>
> Stephen Goranson
>

This does not seem to me to be the sort of reading that a native speaker
would give to ADMIT in the context of the definition; moreover, even if this
reading was the author's "intention," it renders the definition at best
ambiguous--an undesirable quality in a definition.