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16955164 No.16955164 [Reply] [Original]

>"Tell me more about your cousins," Rorschach sent.
>"Our cousins lie about the family tree," Sascha replied, "with nieces and nephews and Neanderthals. We do not like annoying cousins."
>"We'd like to know about this tree."
Sascha muted the channel and gave us a look that said Could it be any more obvious? "It couldn't have parsed that. There were three linguistic ambiguities in there. It just ignored them."
>"Well, it asked for clarification," Bates pointed out.
>"It asked a follow-up question. Different thing entirely."

What is the third linguistic ambiguity? "Lies" and "annoying" are obvious, but what is the third one?

>> No.16955403

ok

>> No.16955428

i don't know.

>check out watts's blog
>he thinks he invented epiphenomenalism

lol genre writers

>> No.16955433

>>16955164
Cousins.
Why is annoying ambiguous?

>> No.16955436

>>16955164
the metaphor "family tree," or the humorous mixture of categories of things in "nieces and nephews and Neanderthals"

>> No.16955459

>>16955433

Annoying is ambiguous because the sentence "we don't like annoying cousins" can be understood as either "we're annoying the cousins" or "cousins are annoying us".

>> No.16955525

>>16955459
From the context it's not ambiguous. A conscious organism would pick up on context.

Also, it asked the right follow-up question.

https://youtu.be/VkR2hnXR0SM?t=144

>> No.16955525,1 [INTERNAL] 

i think it's "about". To lie about a tree - to tell lies on the topic of a tree, or to recline in the general vicinity of a tree.