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Comment by shawabawa3 | Hacker News Reader

it's legible but a very confusing sentence

man-choker is not a word, and choker is a niche garment, why not "necklace" or just "wearable"?

Then it "executes" a question?

and then there's a reference to "both devices" - what devices?

You need to put together a lot of context clues and assumptions to get to: They are probably a diabetic with a glucose monitor and pump, and they want a smart device to analyse the data with natural language (but again, why a choker specifically? Wouldn't a smart watch or something make more sense?)

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Yeah, I find it weirder for someone to claim that it's perfectly legible.

The CGM example was so out of place that I thought they meant to post in yesterday's CGM thread. And I spent a moment wondering why "costlier rice" was qualified. Maybe they are hoping their more expensive yuppy rice is absorbed more slowly?

And man-choker sounds like a word that Frank Herbert made up for Dune.

The sibling reply to mine is getting lost in the weeds: you can admit that something is written in a confusing way while also being able to understand what they meant or even appreciating it. And telling someone to "Get over it" sounds like you aren't tracking what the convo is about.

Apparently GP prefers to be more playful with their language.

> or just "wearable"?

wearable where? A choker is not some niche garment. It is a well understood accessory that maybe not everyone wears, but it's not because it is not well known. Describing it as a man-choker while a made up word, get over it that's how language evolves, is very descriptive. Calling it a choker means that it will be around the neck. Wearable could be a watch, and that's not what was meant. Using the word choker explicitly tells you where it was proposed to be worn.

> and then there's a reference to "both devices" - what devices?

one is the speech device, the other the glucose monitor. separate devices, but worn on the choker which is now becoming a tool belt. But I'm guessing you'd have a problem if it was described as a tool/utility belt worn around the neck like a choker???

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