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It is how many people communicate.
by kempbellt 5y ago
It is how many people communicate.
- tptacek 5y agoNo. Your argument is a linguistic work-to-rules strike.
- kempbellt 5y ago"How was your weekend?" "Yesterday my uncle died and my dog got hit by a car" A lot of people communicate this way. I get the sense that you're on some vendetta against all of my comments for some reason, but I'm not on a weird strike against anything except poor assumptions. But, agree to disagree I suppose.
- selimthegrim 5y agoI have taken employment (probably IQ in disguise) tests that specifically look for people making this association (and mark them down for it). I imagine they thought it had some association with logical skills and success in computer programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy
- GavinMcG 5y agoThe conjunction fallacy has to do with evaluation of likelihood. It's completely unrelated to the conversation so far, which has to do with interpreting whether a conjunction is meaningful in itself.
- selimthegrim 5y agoSorry to distract, then.
- DarylZero 5y ago> > It is how many people communicate. > No. Your argument is a linguistic work-to-rules strike. It's both.