Me too

Same. Literally my favorite restaurant, though I don’t go as often as I used to due to the price increases.

But hey, at least you learned something today!

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Pragmatics-Blackwell-Textbooks-Linguistics/dp/139419675X

Enjoy! Just because you’re ignorant about something doesn’t mean everyone else is too.

In short, a headline being interpretable from available context is a descriptive, empirical phenomenon, as opposed to the question of whether ambiguity is “bad”, which is a normative, unprovable statement with no objective merit.

Poor by what objective metric that doesn’t ultimately boil down to “because I said so”?

Because of your additional normative position that that’s somehow a bad thing, instead of being a perfectly normal part of language that you have the faculties to easily resolve, as mentioned above.

Maybe not as clearly as you thought, champ.

Also, Jesus dude. I initially only wanted to drop some knowledge about agentives vs. anticausatives, not have a huge snarky slapfight just because you chose an incredibly odd and incorrect hill to die on elsewhere in the thread.

Maybe try to have less of a hair trigger in response to innocuous comments in the future.

Going back and reading the thread it doesn’t look like you were the one to point out the ambiguity, champ. Reads more like you were initially confused and then got defensive about it.

Probably could have been written a bit more clearly so that it was less ambiguous, champ.

Use your pragmatics module! Find those context clues! You can do it! I believe in you!

It’s not arbitrary - it’s ambiguous. Context clues, world knowledge, and the entire attached article are more than enough to resolve the ambiguity.

All natural human languages show structural ambiguity like this, especially when it comes to headlines which famously favor brevity over clarity, and the built in feature of human language to solve it is pragmatics.

Agentive interpretation, not anticausative.

I guess that if dragons are related to dinosaurs chicken is about as close as you can get.

As a Cinnamon user, I just assumed they use literally any other DE than KDE.

Good ole Gus-Gus.

All of them except maybe Iceland.

Welcome friend!

That’s her mom IIRC

Nice! Mine’s the default Mint OS wallpaper not on rotation!

Lol, the irony of this being so highly upvoted on Lemmy, of all places.

I know. We’ve had this conversation before.