New telepathy test, the sequel.

Again, the sentence exactly as you quoted it you said was normal.

There was no instance of that string on the entire web except this thread.
 
Nope, that makes no sense either. Someone else typing in too much of a hurry.

The only way I can get it to make sense is to alter it thus: since I am not, and wasn't, prepared.
Yes, I think that's what the person meant. But, the way you write it, it seems a little long. Good for elementary school, but a little long for an internet forum:
{I am and was} not.
 
Parsing that statement the written meaning is "I am prepared and was not prepared"

This is a) almost certainly not what the poster intended and b) not normal usage.

It also c) isn't actually “I'm and wasn't", the correct phrase would be "I am not and was not" the first 'not` is never omitted, the abbreviations would also be unusual as the phrase is normally used in full for emphasis.

The claim that "I'm and wasn't" is in common usage remains unevidenced.
 
Yes, I think that's what the person meant. But, the way you write it, it seems a little long. Good for elementary school, but a little long for an internet forum:
{I am and was} not.


Oh really?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="I+am+not+and+was+not"&oq="I+am+not+and+was+not"&aqs=chrome..69i57&client=ms-android-sonymobile&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Please accept what lifelong English speakers tell you.
 
Yes, I think that's what the person meant. But, the way you write it, it seems a little long. Good for elementary school, but a little long for an internet forum:
{I am and was} not.

It's still a moot point. Using your credibility ratings, the answer has to be thrown out.

Otherwise, you're simply admitting that your credibility ratings are subjective based on your own bias after knowing the answers. Don't you agree that that would be hypocritical?
 
Parsing that statement the written meaning is "I am prepared and was not prepared".

No, it isn't; "I am" refers to the verb "breed" in the previous sentence, so it means "I'm breeding, and wasn't prepared for it." But even that rather unusual usage isn't the same as what Michel erroneously thinks is a correctly formed sentence. The abbreviation "I'm" is invariably followed by a complement; it never refers back to an earlier sentence [1]. If someone wanted to do so, in current usage they would always separate it out into "I am" in the manner of Michel's Googled example.

Dave

[1] And even if it was trying to, it could only be referring to a transitive verb, of which there isn't one anywhere else in the post to refer back to.
 
No, it isn't; "I am" refers to the verb "breed" in the previous sentence, so it means "I'm breeding, and wasn't prepared for it." But even that rather unusual usage isn't the same as what Michel erroneously thinks is a correctly formed sentence. The abbreviation "I'm" is invariably followed by a complement; it never refers back to an earlier sentence [1]. If someone wanted to do so, in current usage they would always separate it out into "I am" in the manner of Michel's Googled example.

Dave

[1] And even if it was trying to, it could only be referring to a transitive verb, of which there isn't one anywhere else in the post to refer back to.

Just so. No native English speaker would ever intentionally use the construction "I'm and ...".

They might write the form "I'm X and wasn't Y", or discuss X and then add "I am, and wasn't Y" (intending the "I am" to refer back to X) but they would never, ever use "I'm" to refer back to X.
 
No, it isn't; "I am" refers to the verb "breed" in the previous sentence, so it means "I'm breeding, and wasn't prepared for it." But even that rather unusual usage isn't the same as what Michel erroneously thinks is a correctly formed sentence. The abbreviation "I'm" is invariably followed by a complement; it never refers back to an earlier sentence [1]. If someone wanted to do so, in current usage they would always separate it out into "I am" in the manner of Michel's Googled example.

Dave

[1] And even if it was trying to, it could only be referring to a transitive verb, of which there isn't one anywhere else in the post to refer back to.

I was taking the nonsensical sentence in isolation, to make it more comparable to the original phrase and giving it some benefit of the doubt, even biasing it in that way it still didn't support his contention that "I'm and wasn't" is correct or common usage.
 
I have received a number of compliments for my work on telepathy
So what - you have a number of criticisms for your too simplistic work on telepathy, just in this long thread. Ask any undergraduate science student about
  • Selection bias
  • Confirmation bias
  • Sample size and its effects on statistics
  • What scientific research is (hint - not online polls!)
  • How to design tests.
    A guessing game need not be a test of telepathy.
You also need to revise what a complement is. Is this s complement or sarcasm?
Totally worth the wait.
given their next post:
I got a credibility rating of -3 because I offered a possible explanation for why I might have chosen my answer.

I demand a recount!
 
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I assume everyone has noticed MichelH's "switcheroo". Originally he heard other people's voices. He then claimed he could command animals to do things.

As animals don't lie, MichelH can be tested tomorrow using animals. He knows that so he dropped this claim. I suggest MichelH's claims change according to what audience he thinks is responding.
:)
 
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You also need to revise what a complement is. Is this s complement or sarcasm?

given their next post: ...
And perhaps you need yourself to revise basic spelling ("complement" instead of "compliment"; the two words are very different). And I don't know why you put a strange "s" in your sentence: "Is this s complement or sarcasm?".
And, to answer your question, when somebody posts:
Totally worth the wait.
right after I have posted my analysis of the results of a test, it is a compliment, not sarcasm, and this compliment is not erased by a mild criticism which may have been made later.

I recently did a telepathy test on skeptiko (a parapsychology-oriented forum): http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/telepathy-test-which-number-did-i-write.4026/ , using my usual method, with only few details and little analysis.
At the end of the test, member Wormwood said:
I changed my mind. The design was flawless. Great study lol.
This, to me, was another compliment for my careful work (this complimentary post was liked by two other members, possibly [not certainly] experts in parapsychology too).
 
If we were to ask any other forum members whether these posts are joking/sarcastic or not, everyone else would say they were sarcastic.

Why are you the only one?

Why do your posts seem like the responses of a machine in that they exhibit accurate lower-level logic but a complete misunderstanding of the human situation, over and over and over and over?
 
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I assume everyone has noticed MichelH's "switcheroo". Originally he heard other people's voices. He then claimed he could command animals to do things.

As animals don't lie, MichelH can be tested tomorrow using animals. He knows that so he dropped this claim. I suggest MichelH's claims change according to what audience he thinks is responding.
:)
I am still hearing voices in my head, and animals outside (dogs and birds) still have the habit of reacting to what I tell them (or even to movements of one of my arms). This could be tested, I suppose but it would be difficult (they might behave very differently under test conditions, be less spontaneous).

It would be difficult to beat the level of clarity of a human statement like this:
I am hearing Michel H's thoughts. ...
 
If we were to ask any other forum members whether these posts are joking/sarcastic or not, everyone else would say they were sarcastic.

Why are you the only one?

Why do your posts seem like the responses of a machine in that they exhibit accurate lower-level logic but a complete misunderstanding of the human situation, over and over and over and over?
Perhaps there is a very serious and very alarming problem of lack of honesty on this forum.
 
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Is there or isn't there?

People act like humans -- they joke to test other humans to see if they get the joke. They also joke because they enjoy it. And they joke because they don't care. And they joke because they're a little bit cruel.
 
Is there or isn't there?

People act like humans -- they joke to test other humans to see if they get the joke. They also joke because they enjoy it. And they joke because they don't care. And they joke because they're a little bit cruel.
I think there is. When a statement "The design was flawless." becomes "sarcasm", and when "Congratulations on once again proving telepathy." becomes an insult, this means (to me, at least) that you have collectively reached an acute level of dishonesty and of bad faith in this forum.
 
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I think there is. When a statement "The design was flawless." becomes "sarcasm", and when "Congratulations on once again proving telepathy." becomes an insult, this means (to me, at least) that you have collectively reached an accute level of dishonesty and of bad faith in this forum.

Perhaps greener pastures are in order?

From your first post, you said we could all read your mind, but were lying about it. Given that, I don't know why you would want to use us in your idiotic tests in the first place.
 

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