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Message 186 of 560 (647194)
01-08-2012 12:37 PM
Reply to: Message 183 by subbie
12-30-2011 1:04 PM


Re: The only remaining question
subbie writes:
If the former, it's still conceivable that he could be understanding what he reads but cannot accurately reason from there. If the latter, insufficient processing skills strongly suggest an inability to understand the initial input.
Thoughts?
I have posted this before (but I can't explain it).
I once posted intentional gibberish as a reply to one of Dawn's nonsensical posts.
He then argued in favour of what I had written (because I had made it sound 'religiousy').
I then told him that I had intentionally posted gibberish.
He then argued against the gibberish I had posted.
At no point did he show a proper understanding of anything I had written.
It reminds me of simple language learning software.
He can create sentences that reasonably adhere to the rules of English, but they often do not actually make sense.
But he can't actually understand English - he just looks at patterns/positions of words and tries to remember the pattern.
He sees the sentence "Tom has a green hat" and concludes that "Saturn has a green hat" should also make sense.

If I were you
And I wish that I were you
All the things I'd do
To make myself turn blue

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