For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    But hot dogs aren’t sandwiches they’re tacos. It perfectly logical to describe a hot dog as an American taco. If there were no taco items on the table and you asked for a taco I’d think you were being funny, but I’d pass you the hot dog.

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      Without pause? You’re telling me that if you saw a table with xiaolongbao, hamburger, duba wot, pizza, Caesar salad, ice cream, hot dog, soondubu, and potato chips on it and I said “Please pass me that taco.” you would hand me the hot dog without any hesitation? Even a fucking moment’s worth?

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        Pause long enough to go “that’s different”, then hand you the hot dog, because only one of those items is a taco, even if it’s not commonly called a taco.

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          Then it’s not a fucking taco. If it were a taco, it would be readily apparent what I meant. You have to parse my request and try to interpret what I could be meaning by taco as I’m using it in an incorrect way.

          Language is meant to communicate meaning and if the language I use obfuscates my meaning it’s being used incorrectly. It isn’t clear that I meant hot dog when I said taco, hence your hypothetical pause.

          So you’re WRONG, but I do appreciate your honesty, thank you let’s play again sometime

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            64 months ago

            So if there were scrambled eggs and caviar on the table. You say pass the eggs and someone without hesitation hands over the caviar are they wrong?

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                They are a tie for me, because I think of them as salty fish eggs.

                A sushi place had an egg roll (sushi, not egg rolls) and I thought it was the little fish eggs thing but was actually scrambled egg in a rectangle. My disappointment was immense.

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              Hm, I think I’d pass you the scrambled eggs first, but I may hesitate and or ask for clarification. This example is a little different because there is some element of ambiguity involved. The intent in the experiment is to create a situation with zero ambiguity other than the “wrong” answer. I think you’ve created a different situation, more akin to there being a tuna sub on the table along with the hot dog and asking for “the sandwich” which isn’t nearly as good a test for this purpose.

              For your test, there’d have to be nothing egg-like besides the caviar. At least for it to be using the same methodology the test I created uses.

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                I think it is a great example of expectations.

                The hotdog and sandwich thing is silly because tacos are commonly thought of as a Mexican/Hispanic food and hot dogs are a US thing. Like how a chicken wrap and a chicken soft taco are different things even though both can have the same tortilla and chicken, with different vegetables and spices/flavorings. Chicken wraps are often cold, but can be served warm without becoming a taco!

                It is a convoluted, arbitrary mess that only works because most people just go with the flow and don’t really think about things beyond the surface level.