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Somewhat related: I wish human languages would have the concept of a parse error. Often enough someone says something to me that I'll hear with 100% clarity, bu
by Doxin 7y ago
Somewhat related: I wish human languages would have the concept of a parse error. Often enough someone says something to me that I'll hear with 100% clarity, but still have no clue what they are trying to say, after which it's often time to play the "what" game until they rephrase.
- enlyth 7y ago"Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're saying, would you mind elaborating?"
- onorton 7y ago"Can you rephrase that?"
- slazaro 7y ago"Sorry, I understood the words but not the sentence"
- gnode 7y ago"Doesn't sound like anything to me."
- Doxin 7y agoAh but that's not strictly true, since it usually involves perfectly grammatically correct sentences that still just don't make sense.
- bcbrown 7y agoYou might find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence interesting.
- gnode 7y agoVery interesting. The article's "see also" references branch prediction. Given all the nascent security findings around cache security, it makes me wonder whether disfluency could be used to attack cognition, in interrogative techniques or subversive advertising, for instance.