August 22, 2007
Philosophy of Mind Reading Group forming
Just got an email with this title from the Cognitive Science email list here at the University of Arizona. I was really excited at first because I thought they meant
But then I read the rest of the email and I realized they just meant
Ah well! I expect it'll still be interesting.
If they'd only sent the invitation as a sound file, this would never have happened. They would have said this,
not this
and I'd have understood right away--that's what the Compound Stress Rule of English can do for you (see, e.g., the second para here).
(Hat tip to Andrew Carnie.)
Posted by Heidi Harley at August 22, 2007 03:30 PM