Aside from trivial statements like “turn out the lights,” epistemologically speaking, how can ensure alignment between what we mean when we utter something semi-complex and what the other person understands? Is this purely philosophical? fMRI?
Most of the time, when we say something, what the other person ends up understanding is pretty different from what we intended to convey (including on Twitter, obviously). But it's still pretty amazing that there's any alignment at all. Language is a miracle.
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I believe we often have less evidence of such understanding than we seem to think.
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And yet the adaptive communication/ evolutionary linguistics picture tends to show otherwise. But what we often miss is the positive value of missing others’ meanings.
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For what it’s worth, verbal interaction makes consensus trivial when compared to online interaction
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Yeah, language without tonality is pretty bland. This is why a phone call is much more effective at conveying stuff as compared to a simple text.
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That's why topic detection on NLP works so well, for sure! Combinations of words include/compress a wealth of *shared* meanings in a incredibly small amount of bytes. Despite the diversity of contexts (including locutors).
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Yeah. I mean, to realise that one of the primary modes of communication is inconsistent and yet is something that humans have been able to use, to accomplish the things that we have. I find it remarkable and intimidating at the same time.
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Try Swiss German ...
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Just Kidding
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