Re: storage vs computation
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 6:20 |
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Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> Anyway, on the subject of storing versus computing language utterances,
> it has long before been clear to me that a lot of people speak entirely
> in stored, ready-made sentences, sometimes being able to construct a
> whole conversation with phrases out of a kind of stock.
Reminds me of the following exchange:
"How are you doing?"
"Fine"
Between me and my psychologist, whom I was seeing for depression at the
time. Obviously, if I was seeing him, I wasn't "fine" by any definition
of the word, and he knew why I was seeing him. Funny how that routine
is so automatic, hunh? It's quite rare that I'll ever say anything
other than "fine", unless I'm really dying to get something off my
chest, and it's a good friend that asked.
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