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I learned the other day that when allistic people say food “looks good” they don’t mean that it’s aesthetically pleasing. They mean it looks like it will taste good 😭
This isn't even an issue of hidden meaning, this is just English being a broken language lol. "Looks [like it's] good" gets shortened and accidentally acquires a different meaning.
Isn't the shortening of commonly used phrase just a natural language thing in general? Curse these language processing structures
Why would there be a consistent single meaning for such a simple statement
I’ve interpreted it in a single way every single time anyone’s ever said it for decades. Then I figured out people often meant it a different less literal way. This happens to me all the time with a bunch of different experiences. I didn’t sit down and decide that it logically should conform to certain expectations. I just had some unexamined expectations in the first place. And there’s a pattern to the way that that plays out when the expectation is corrected.
Thanks for telling me. Usually my hiccup is that meaning is so palpable that it evaporates as soon as it's needed. To me "thats/its good" would have no meaning at all because it could be used to say any of several different things or nothing. Especially if it was the answer to a question. It's a non-answer without some way to ground what "good" means. I would simply pretend I understand.
I definitely relate to just pretending to understand. To your point, even if people tended to say the full phrase of “it looks like it will be good to eat,” that could be out of politeness or out of excitement or just as a default statement because they’re bored. So many possible meanings that could come out of that.
Stupid sexy flan
Okay so hear me out