Re:To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as re...
by oarsinsync on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:34AM
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Apologies, I realise the way I wrote this wasn’t clear enough:
> Eventually, you’ve potentially gotten it right when ... the person you’re speaking to understands
I can see that I wrote poorly here myself, and here you (and child) are correctly correcting me, while simultaneously arguing against that happening, which is kinda ironic!
What I failed to adequately express was that human languages are a lot more forgiving of errors, and as long as the message is understood, you’ve gotten it “right”
> Eventually, you’ve potentially gotten it right when ... the person you’re speaking to understands
I can see that I wrote poorly here myself, and here you (and child) are correctly correcting me, while simultaneously arguing against that happening, which is kinda ironic!
What I failed to adequately express was that human languages are a lot more forgiving of errors, and as long as the message is understood, you’ve gotten it “right”