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October 3, 2005
knowns and unknowns
One of the students brought in Donald Rumsfeld’s famous ‘rum remarks’ about ‘knowns and unknowns’ today.
I think we decided that it was gobbledygook mainly because of the processing load and the fact that it was a tautology with no interesting effects that also failed to answer a direct question.
Funnily enough, we then looked at some ‘unknown knowns’, i.e. things about language that speakers know but don’t know they know (like when to aspirate a /p/)
B-)
Posted by Billy at October 3, 2005 5:13 PM
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