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Comment author: fubarobfusco 13 August 2011 08:29:20AM -1 points [-]

We had one of these confusions at the Mountain View meetup this week. NLP: Natural Language Processing or Neuro-Linguistic Programming?

Nonetheless, humans are overall pretty good at dealing with linguistic ambiguities — enough so that we usually find them more groan-inducing (as puns) than actually confusing.