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The WildMassGuess page for the book Monster goes to the one for the anime of the same name. My code fu is not strong enough to fix this.
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The WildMassGuess page for the book Monster goes to the one for the anime of the same name. It would appear the Trivia and Crowner and YMMV pages also do.
My code fu is not strong enough to fix this.
My code fu is not strong enough to fix this.
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I agree with DevilsAdvocate; the specific cases result from the lack of differentiation between OR and XOR in English, which is mentioned. In fact, the Babylon 5 example is a perfect example in that the answer is a correct answer to the question-as-asked (allowing for inclusive OR) but NOT as intended (since speakers usually mean XOR, and will say \
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I agree with DevilsAdvocate; the specific cases result from the lack of differentiation between OR and XOR in English, which is mentioned. In fact, the Babylon 5 example is a perfect example in that the answer is a correct answer to the question-as-asked (allowing for inclusive OR) but NOT as intended (since speakers usually mean XOR, and will say \\\"and/or\\\" to specify OR). On a related note, the section that acknowledges this in the article seems to imply that differentiation between OR and XOR in some languages resolves the mathematician\\\'s answer of \\\"yes,\\\" which it does not in fact do as long as one and only one of the items is correct in an XOR question or one, the other, or both of the answers is correct in an OR question. For example, the coffee/tea question is INTENDED to be \\\"Would you like coffee or tea, and if so which would you like?\\\" I do think the OR/XOR differentiation is interesting and occasionally relevant to the trope, so I don\\\'t think the line should be scrapped, but it does need to be re-worded.
