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#随想：all of my spontaneous random thoughts #摘录：引用一些别人的智慧话语（通常是读论文看见好玩的东西） #真人真事：艺术源于生活 #语言学：因为我是linguistics nerd #段子：轻量级幽默 #长文：尝试进行写作复健（中英夹杂警告⚠️）

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The most famous Jabberwocky example comes from Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky poem itself, which begins ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe and was designed to be nonsense. Yet clearly it is syntactically well-formed (did is capitalized in the original because of the line breaks).

For language users are sufficiently hungry to view language as an object with meaning that listeners make guesses about the meanings of these novel words, and come up with some (at least vague and general) meaning for the whole sentence. They do have some idea of what this sentence is about. And, strikingly, a speaker of English would certainly say that the above sentence is not synonymous with ’Twas not brillig, and the slithy toves did not gyre nor gimble in the wabe. But this judgment would be a complete category error if the sentence were literally meaningless. (Incidentally, one can construct the same argument for the colorless green ideas case.)”

Hoffman et al. (2015)

#摘录 #段子

...Male jewel beetles fly about looking for the glossy, dimpled, and brown wing-casings of females. When males of H. sapiens began tossing out empty beer bottles that were glossy, dimpled, and just the right shade of brown, the male beetles swarmed the bottles and ignored the females, nearly causing the extinction of the species (Gwynne and Rentz 1983).

Males of H. sapiens. How interesting. lmao

...Indeed, if the interface theory of perception is correct, and natural selection has shaped H. sapiens to share a nonveridical interface, then that is precisely why we agree. But that entails nothing about reality. All flies agree: dung tastes great. We might beg to differ.

Ok...?

What can we possibly mean by the veridical taste of a molecule? What objective standard tells us its true taste? Couldn’t taste vary across species? One might hope, for instance that dung tastes different to coprophagic creatures, such as pigs, rodents, and rabbits, than it does to us (Hübner et al. 2013).

为什么这个作者如此沉迷屎尿屁幽默，而且为什么这里有reference啊！