Tom.Thomson (5/13/2011)
(1) New Zealanders (or at least one of then) don't use the position in the clause of "only" to distinguish the three possible meanings that the combination of "only" with "may" can express in the same way the most British people do...
I can't speak for all four million of us, but I had to choose between two interpretations:
"Pages in extents may be assigned to only one object"
1) "Pages in extents might (all) be assigned to a single object" (an observation)
or...if we are used to reading technical specifications and the like, perhaps as:
2) "You can only assign pages from an extent to the same single object" (an instruction).
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