Comment by godelski

Yeah I agree. I really think the game is about how language is fuzzy, which I said a bit more over here[0]. I had a more detailed comment but the person deleted their post by the time I hit reply ;.;

Really what surprises me is how few people seem to understand that language is incredibly fuzzy. That there's an imperfect encoder (language) and decoder (listening/reading) system. That people are working off of different priors that bias these systems. That we aren't perfectly aligning the intent of our messages with the reception of them. That this system becomes even more fuzzy as the audience increases (increased variance in priors). It is a bit more surprising to me that in a community full of nerds where we communicate online, where we're exposed to many priors, that this is still a relatively unknown phenomena despite it being fairly easy to conclude simply through experience (besides also being fairly well discussed). I for one think the fuzziness of language is incredibly cool.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36456951