[lit-ideas] Turing and Grice: The Implicature Game
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Speranza
From "The Imitation Game":
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EXT. SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR BOYS - DAY - 1927
Young Alan and Christopher sit under a tree, the school in the distance.
Alan is going through a crossword puzzle, Christopher is reading a book.
Their legs are touching affectionately without either even knowing, like
two people who are effortlessly comfortable with one another.
YOUNG ALAN: What’s that you’re reading?
Christopher shows him: “A Guide to Codes and Cyphers.”
CHRISTOPHER: It’s about cryptography.
YOUNG ALAN: What’s cryptography?
CHRISTOPHER: It’s complicated. You wouldn’t understand.
YOUNG ALAN: I’m only fourteen months younger than you. Don’t treat me like
a child.
CHRISTOPHER: Cryptography is the science of codes.
YOUNG ALAN: Like secret messages?
CHRISTOPHER: Not secret. That’s the brilliant part. Messages that anyone
can see, but no one knows what they mean, unless you have the key.
YOUNG ALAN (confused): How is that different from talking?
CHRISTOPHER: Talking?
YOUNG ALAN: When people talk to each other they never say what they mean.
They say something else. And you’re supposed to just know what they mean.
Only, I never do. So how is that different?
CHRISTOPHER (handing him the book): Alan, I have a funny feeling that you’
re going to be very good at this.
CUT TO EXT. SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR BOYS - DORMITORY - EVENING.
Cheers,
Speranza
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