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“I can’t parse this” What they usually mean is not that they can’t comprehend the grammar. They usually mean that they don’t understand what it means. Butcher
by avgcorrection 4y ago
“I can’t parse this”
What they usually mean is not that they can’t comprehend the grammar. They usually mean that they don’t understand what it means.
Butchered technical term.
- yccs27 4y agoRelatively often "I can't parse this" is still about the grammar, more specifically when it's not clear what words belong together. As an example from the article, "certified community behavioral health clinic" is a single token, but if you don't know the term, you won't parse it correctly. In other cases a sentence might contain technical terms as adjectives/adverbs where it's not clear which word they modify. Or possibly the content is just so confusing that you begin to doubt you parsed everything correctly...
- dsr_ 4y agoWorse, improper nouns cause people to be unaware that they have failed to parse them in the manner intended. Human languages are imprecise; communication is often difficult.