alt Hacker NewsThat’s less a brain teaser than running into the error correction people use with language. This is useful when you simply can’t hear someone very well or when the speaker makes a mistake, but fails when language is intentionally misused.
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godelski • yesterday at 9:30 PM
I have a few friends with pretty heavy accents and broken English. Even my partner makes frequent mistakes as a non native English speaker. It's made me much better at communicating but it's also more work and easier for miscommunication to happen. I think a lot of people don't realize this also happens with variation in culture. So even within people speaking the same language. It's just that the accent serves as a flag for "pay closer attention". I suspect this is a subtle but contributing problem to miscommunication on the and why fights are so frequent.
pvillano • yesterday at 7:56 PM
Yeah but I might ask a malformed question about a domain I know nothing about and not know it was malformed. An expert would ask for clarification