Was that a cue to talk to somebody who's now watching? Well, won't hurt if she makes a mistake about that. She repeats the gesture, pointing at herself. "Thellim!" Long pause. "Language difficulty! Tsi-imbi! I'm from dath ilan! As you can see, I speak an unknown complicated syntactical language with at least some repeated words, if I go on talking long enough I ought to at least repeat a preposition or something, so unless your first theory is that somebody devised a whole new language and learned fluency in it to the point of doing this as a prank, I probably come from another world! Though I'd totally understand if you thought pranks were a higher prior probability than that. I hope your world gets lots of people like me and that you do not start out with an astronomically high prior that everyone here is insane!"
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Was that a cue to talk to somebody who's now watching? Well, won't hurt if she makes a mistake about that. She repeats the gesture, pointing at herself. "Thellim!" Long pause. "Language difficulty! Tsi-imbi! I'm from dath ilan! As you can see, I speak an unknown complicated syntactical language with at least some repeated words, if I go on talking long enough I ought to at least repeat a preposition or something, so unless your first theory is that somebody devised a whole new language and learned fluency in it as a prank, I probably come from another world! Though I'd totally understand if you thought pranks were a higher prior probability than that. I hope your world gets lots of people like me and that you do not start out with an astronomically high prior that everyone in this house is insane!" |