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In order to be motivated, I would like to have a good idea of the impact the work would be making. I would like to see a clear explanation of the process taken to come up with the question and a list of who in LW supports this question as being an effective target of attention at this point in time and why. Maybe this could be documented in the question post and maybe there could be rounds that potential questions to go through for community members to vote/discuss/rate them. Maybe there could be a backlog of other questions that have not been chosen yet with reasons why they have not been... (read more)
In principle, I think the idea of language being misleading is tightly intertwined with the the tension between expectations that people have in their experience with a given application of language (i.e. reading a written work or having a conversation with another person), and their actual experience of the language application.
I also think that the concept of learning is also important here. Over time, people learn to better understand or use applications of language, so what may be misleading at one point in time for a particular person may not be later on.