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posted by [identity profile] yaleartificer.livejournal.com at 03:48pm on 12/02/2009
"Hammer = awesome uniqueness" -- that's fascinating! I know kids often focus on one aspect of a word's meaning to the exclusion of others, but "awesome uniqueness" would not be the first feature that comes to mind.

I'm sorely tempted to call this phenemenon of non-obvious feature choice the "hammer pants problem" in an academic paper.
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posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 06:48pm on 12/02/2009
Doooooooo iiiiiiit! :)
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posted by [identity profile] yaleartificer.livejournal.com at 09:39pm on 13/02/2009
I don't have a paper coming up, but I just put it in my first invited talk:

http://cs.wellesley.edu/~kgold/HammerPants.png

I'd like to think that the fact the talk is in Japan will only help my case. "Hammeru Pantasu!"
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posted by [identity profile] yaleartificer.livejournal.com at 09:40pm on 13/02/2009
(Tentatively pending Ori approval, of course.)
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posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 09:42pm on 13/02/2009
ohmygosh. YOU WIN!

I will be laughing for WEEKS.
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 06:15am on 15/02/2009
Awesome. I'm fine with it, though I appreciate using the nickname. We'll tell you about any other idiosyncratic meanings that occur!
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posted by [identity profile] cerebralpaladin.livejournal.com at 07:56pm on 12/02/2009
It's worth noting that it's not to the exclusion of other meanings. He recognizes hammers and will use the word hammer correctly to refer to them. He just also uses (or mostly used) hammer with an additional, idiosyncratic meaning. :)
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posted by [identity profile] yaleartificer.livejournal.com at 09:41pm on 13/02/2009
Very good to know ... it makes the example even more interesting. How old is Mac, exactly?
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 06:12am on 15/02/2009
He turns 2 and a half next week.
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