Okay, this may sound like a weird question, however, every time I think about it, I cannot explain it to myself.
How many times can you repeat a sentence such as "I thought that you thought that I thought that you thought..." before it stops making sense? Well... not really stop making sense, but... when you repeat it enough times, how would you interpret it?
Of course, I realize that nobody would ever use that kind of repetition in a sentence, so I'm just speaking hypothetically.
2006-11-29
15:26:09
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johnny d
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Wow. apparently, some of you THOUGHT that you had a sense of humor. don't quit your day jobs.
Let me rephrase it in this way:
Why is it that I am able to coherently say:
"I thought that you thought that I thought that you thought.."
however if I were to repeat it a few more times, the sentence simply isnt coherent. My question is why is true, and is there a name for it?
I loked up "recurrent structure", but did not find anything on it.
2006-11-29
15:55:23 ·
update #1