NLP Linguistic Mastery LabMind Village
Chunking
Chunking down and mismatching
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Nit-Picking Recovery

Spot the spiral of increasing detail plus mismatch, then make the upward recovery move.

1 / 2· natural conversation

Study the trainer

The proposal

A review meeting. Twenty minutes in, nobody has mentioned the client.

Client

The proposal is wrong.

Trainer

What in particular?

Client

Well — the third paragraph is wrong.

Client

Actually it's the wording in the third line of it.

Client

And that comma changes the whole meaning.

What structure is running, and what is the recovery move?