RE: NLP Puzzle
The following question appeared on the NLPTalk mailing list:
<How many meta-model violations can you find in the next sentence ?>
<This list is fun!>
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Here are some meta-model PATTERNS:
This: unspecified referenctial index -> What list? Do you mean NLPtalk?
fun: deleted comparison: fun compared to what?
the sentence: complex equivalence - What makes this list "fun" to you?
lost performative: who is saying that this list is fun?
(the last 2 patterns can be called "violations", if this is helpful to you.)
However: from the context the sentence is put in, you often can get the answers
to these questions. Maybe you have experienced that asking questions based on
the meta-model patterns can have the effect that the other party gets
irritated.
One path of getting one's ittitation strategy to fire is asking question to
which the other person thought the answer was implied in his speech/text.
I'd rather ask the question <"Which meta-model patterns would trigger a
question, and what would be the TOTE of the question?">. When supervising
students working with the meta-model patterns, that's the question they are
likely to get, whenever they ask a question based on the meta model.
Note: on my web-site, I've put a page about "Asking Questions". The content of
that page illustrates the approach I take when I have 2 hours to get someone on
the road to mastering the meta-model patterns.
Given the public on this list - I'd like to use this tread to get a discussion
started on what your reaction would be when someone states the sentence "This
list is fun". Maybe Rene Duba can give is the answer from "provocative
theraphy", and someone else the reaction of a Rogerian therapist, or the
official "fread answer", etc.
Patrick E.C.Merlevede -- 100117.1420@compuserve.com
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