My pareidolia knows no bounds.

OK, Larry, I'm stumped. You want us to make up a new word for it? Why on Earth would we do that?

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<br />Rich,

I'm serious about the rules I posted. I'm going to start enforcing them soon.

Before you can use the word 'pareidolia' (currently UNDEFINED) you have to post a definition that follows the rules.

Here is a suggestion for how to format a defining post:

Reference - yada
Definition - bada
Name - bing

Then you and others can use it like this: blah blah ... pareidolia (bing) ... blah blah

... OR ...

You can complain about how unfair this is. And we can talk. I've seen flame wars erupt over smaller things than this and I'm experimenting with some ideas I've had about how to stop them.

Accurate communication is unreasonably hard. Everyone using different definitions is part of the reason.


LB
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But you appear to be catering to someone who is denying the reality of what's been described numerous times. At least with respect to the "bing" part.

rd

Here is how I see this working. Suppose we get three definitions (bing1, bing2 and bing3).

Someone makes a post and references bing3 when he uses 'the word'.

Anyone who replies knows which definition is in use. If he wants to talk about 'the word' using a different definition he has to say so explicitly.

If the author choses to not reply, the conversation fails to move in that direction (unless someone in the audience jumps in). And that new person is still going to have to say which definition they are talking about any time they directly or indirectly use 'the word'.

LB

(I wonder if it will actually work that way?)

<b>[rderosea]"At least with respect to the "bing" part."</b>

I mean that the name (to be used in parenthesis) would literally be "bing".

From a recent post of mine:
Then you and others can use it like this: blah blah ... pareidolia (bing) ... blah blah

LB

Or maybe one of you might use the name "bark", or "foo"

Something short, hopefully.

LB

OK. Let's try this:

Reference: encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/

Definition:

Pareidolia (/pr#616;#712;do#650;li#601;/ parr-i-doh-lee-#601;) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant, a form of apophenia. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.

The word comes from the Greek words para (#960;#945;#961;#940;, "beside, alongside, instead") in this context meaning something faulty, wrong, instead of; and the noun eid#333;lon (#949;#7988;#948;#969;#955;#959;#957; "image, form, shape") the diminutive of eidos. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data.

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