army1987 comments on Local Ordinances of Fun - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Alicorn 18 June 2012 03:07AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 June 2012 05:56:47PM *  2 points [-]

I certainly wouldn't expect her to say, "Your question is confused; I cannot answer it as stated."

Not with those words, but I'd assign a probability more than 5% that a randomly-chosen first-grader would answer something to that effect. (On the other hand I seem to recall homework questions I was assigned in elementary school which assumed that the antonym of sweet is bitterยน, which it clearly isn't -- water is neither and dark chocolate is both.)


  1. Actually the Italian equivalents thereof, but I can't think of any major difference between their denotations or connotations.