Comparative Illusion
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Comparative Illusion
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#2The linked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_embedding is also interesting. German is famous for its centre embeddings of Nebensätzen, where you end your whole sentence with a pile of verbs.
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#3Every new major patch of Path of Exile, someone runs the patch notes through a markov chain generator and comes up with new notes. If you're not familiar with the game they may not make sense. If you are familiar with the game, they bounce between things which almost make sense like in the linked article and things which could actually be in the patch notes.
"Blood chieftains can now hurl blood apes at you." -- I think this was highly requested after the fake notes came out.
link to a previous set of patch notes: https://www.facebook.com/pathofexile/photos/we-ran-the-patch...
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#4More people have been to Russia than I’ve.
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#5"Nachts ist kälter als draußen."
Not sure if this really works in English: "At night is colder than outdoors."
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#6I don't understand how "In Michigan and Minnesota, more people found Mr Bush's ads negative than they did Mr Kerry's." is an example of this. To me, that unambiguously parses like this:
peopleInMichiganAndMinnesota.filter(foundMrBushsAdsNegative).length() > peopleInMichiganAndMinnesota.filter(foundMrKerrysAdsNegative).length()Re: Comparative Illusion
#7I don't understand how "In Michigan and Minnesota, more people found Mr Bush's ads negative than they did Mr Kerry's." is an example of this. To me, that unambiguously parses like this: peopleInMichiganAndMinnesota.filter(foundMrBushsAdsNegative).length() > peopleInMichiganAndMinnesota.filter(foundMrKerrysAdsNegative).length()
Good question. I followed the citation in wikipedia and it points to this article:
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1997 In the comment thread there, people are discussing the question you raise.
Essentially, it's the inclusion of the word "they" which makes the sentence incorrect. If the word "they" was removed it would be valid and would mean what you read it as.
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#8Similarly in computer programming some code just seems like it should work, but it does not compute
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#9I don't understand how "In Michigan and Minnesota, more people found Mr Bush's ads negative than they did Mr Kerry's." is an example of this. To me, that unambiguously parses like this: peopleInMichiganAndMinnesota.filter(foundMrBushsAdsNegative).length() > peopleInMichiganAndMinnesota.filter(foundMrKerrysAdsNegative).length()
'More people' needs to be compared to a differenet group but the use of 'they' means the 'more people' are being compared to themselves.
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#10More people have been to Russia than I’ve.
My brain extracts the meaning
Other people have been to Russia than I.