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by tptacek 1634 days ago
No. Your argument is a linguistic work-to-rules strike.
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"How was your weekend?"

"Yesterday my uncle died and my dog got hit by a car"

A lot of people communicate this way.

I get the sense that you're on some vendetta against all of my comments for some reason, but I'm not on a weird strike against anything except poor assumptions.

But, agree to disagree I suppose.

I have taken employment (probably IQ in disguise) tests that specifically look for people making this association (and mark them down for it). I imagine they thought it had some association with logical skills and success in computer programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy

The conjunction fallacy has to do with evaluation of likelihood. It's completely unrelated to the conversation so far, which has to do with interpreting whether a conjunction is meaningful in itself.
Sorry to distract, then.
> > It is how many people communicate.

> No. Your argument is a linguistic work-to-rules strike.

It's both.