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Lumifer comments on Linguistic mechanisms for less wrong cognition - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 01 December 2015 04:58:43PM 1 point [-]

So is it, basically, a status signal by now?

Comment author: polymathwannabe 01 December 2015 06:03:04PM 1 point [-]

Yes, but in a complicated way. "A glass with water" is hypercorrection, which gives the speaker the opposite status from the one he believes he's displaying.

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