Molybdenumblue comments on Tidbit: “Semantic over-achievers” - Less Wrong

6 Post author: kpreid 01 December 2011 03:49PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 December 2011 03:37:35PM 2 points [-]

Thiss?

There's a related problem: Once they have terms for something, humans have a tendency to take for granted that anything that appears to make superficial syntactic sense actually has semantics behind it.

Or just use a bunch of commas?

There's a related problem; Humans have a tendency, once they have terms for something, to take for granted that something that looks, at a glance, to make rough syntactic sense actually has semantics behind it.

Comment author: radical_negative_one 03 December 2011 08:54:09PM 1 point [-]

The punctuation, it's beautiful!

I'm a little relieved to find that, when i first read the grandparent comment, i was able to parse it the same way as you have in your clarification.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 03 December 2011 09:20:32PM 0 points [-]

Yes! So much better.