twisty parents, all alike

[metaphortunate]

Conversing with the toddler makes me feel like an Infocom game.

> That a car wash

No, that is a gas station.

> Go to gas station

You can't go to the gas station. It's too late. Also, it's raining.

> Go to gas station

It's still raining.

> It stop raining.

You can't stop it raining that way.

> Tooth

You have a tooth. You have many teeth.

> Tooth

I don't know what you want to do with your tooth.

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ETA: I am not the first one to think of this!

Comments

[roadrunnertwice]

Bless this post.

(Also, now that I think about it, learning how to operate consensus reality has a lot in common with learning how to operate a broken text parser.)

[metaphortunate]

What can I do? What can't I do? What commands do you understand?

It's surprisingly similar!