Talk:Chris and English

there's a difference between a spelling error (geinus or however he's been doing it for the past like what 6 years?) and typo

but i think this could be expanded to a Chris and English page imo Clydec 21:33, 21 October 2009 (CEST)

• Good point. --USAJAP1 21:36, 21 October 2009 (CEST)

• Chris and English sounds like a good idea to me. The way he talks and writes is unique, to say the least.--Beat 21:50, 21 October 2009 (CEST)

• Yeah, especially considering this. --USAJAP1 21:57, 21 October 2009 (CEST)

Spelling errors

Geinus seems to be the main one he's been making for years. Any others? Observe his grammar patterns and other shit and stuff. Yeah. stuff. Clydec 03:53, 22 October 2009 (CEST)

• "Seinor" is one he does consistently. --Champthom 06:00, 23 October 2009 (CEST)

Autism

I haven't read the article in full yet but I don't think there's anything noting that awkward speech is usually associated with autism. --Champthom 06:00, 23 October 2009 (CEST)

• It didn't even occur to me. My bad. --Beat 17:27, 23 October 2009 (CEST)
• Many autistics (at least aspies; you know, the ones whom Chris thinks are not actually autistic) are actually very precise and pendantic about grammar and spelling in a way that is quite unlike Chris. It wasn't for nothing that Hans Asperger called the kids he studied "little professors." --Doomknight 03:52, 2 December 2009 (CET)
• Likewise, some of the semantics thing is an autism thing. Like Chris answering "yes" to "Do you listen to music while drawing?" is an autistic thing. It's sorta like on Facebook when people would message him after he'd request to be their friend with "Do I know you?" and Chris would say something like "I don't know, I can't read your mind." Autistics tend to have very literal thinking and will fail to see the subtlety of a question, in this case "Do I know you?" is the socially accepted way of saying "Typically, people requesting to be my friend are people I know, and I don't know you. Are we connected in any way?" The "pen is mightier than the sword but more permanent than the pencil" is more of a random access humor thing. In fact, the random access humor is partially based in childish verb puns. --Champthom 04:33, 2 December 2009 (CET)
  • The literal answers to questions deal is technically known as a lack of linguistic pragmatism. His fairly flat, unnaturally patterned speaking voice is probably a case of aprosodic speech. I'm mentioning it here because I don't think it matters much to the article, so I'm hesitant to add it (especially as my first edit), but there are attempts at technical terminology here and there. MaybeNever 03:26, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Chris and abstract thinking

Do you think this could be a "Chris and..." article? There is plenty of evidence that he is NOT an abstract thinker (This would highlight his "Child-like" thinking; children tend be concrete, i.e. literal, in their thinking, Chris is no exception). There's enough evidence of his concrete thinking to make into a separate article. . --Scarletdragon 23:21, 2 December, 2009 (CET)

• This is something that could be discussed in the autism article (and it's already discussed there) since this is really an autism thing. --Champthom 05:44, 2 December 2009 (CET)

Attempts to sound suave and educated

I can't really pin it down (I'm not great at literary analysis), but I've noticed that Chris often attempts to sound like, I dunno, a 19th century upper-middle class English writer. For example, in the email describing his detective work regarding the photo taken at the Game Place, he refers to playing a card game with "a young gentleman." I'm too lazy to search for more examples but perhaps you guys know what I mean. I you agree this is a trait, it should be mentioned either here or in the Writing article. Glorious Tentacularity 06:51, 6 December 2009 (CET)

Name change

This article should probably be renamed Chris and Language. What do you think? --Delabonte 16:23, 6 June 2010 (UTC)