I don’t expect people to be editing their comments for absolute maximum clarity on here, so it wasn’t a critique.
When I’m reading and my mind does a reparse, I feel amusement, I suppose because of the mild confusion followed by a brief puzzle solving exercise followed by understanding. The brain (or some brains, including mine, anyway) seems to treat this flavor of tension->resolution as humorous, as with other flavors of tension->resolution humor like taboo violation in a safe space, or close friends pretending to be about to hit each other.
I don’t expect people to be editing their comments for absolute maximum clarity on here, so it wasn’t a critique.
When I’m reading and my mind does a reparse, I feel amusement, I suppose because of the mild confusion followed by a brief puzzle solving exercise followed by understanding. The brain (or some brains, including mine, anyway) seems to treat this flavor of tension->resolution as humorous, as with other flavors of tension->resolution humor like taboo violation in a safe space, or close friends pretending to be about to hit each other.