Just as a matter of interest - why do you think that I'm from the US?
My personal opinion is that a word isn't ambiguous just because it has several different usages. It's all about context and in this context it means meditatively or contemplatively which is, according to one of the many dictionaries on the Internet, the third meaning of thoughtful. To be honest I'm less likely to use it to mean considerate because there are other words that I prefer.
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Date: 2011-10-10 08:31 am (UTC)My personal opinion is that a word isn't ambiguous just because it has several different usages. It's all about context and in this context it means meditatively or contemplatively which is, according to one of the many dictionaries on the Internet, the third meaning of thoughtful. To be honest I'm less likely to use it to mean considerate because there are other words that I prefer.