Meta Discussion Analysis and Practice[AM and Dface]

[Dface]

I’m gonna try going over certain quotes and see if I can say yes, no, or idk that something counts as meta discussion:

Quote #1:

@Dface

@ActiveMind

Were you uncertain because “Hank Rearden” is two words?

Yeah, I grouped them when I was writing the tree, but then I was just like why? Why am I treating the two words as one?

The quote by me: idk. It sounds meta, like the quote is a conversation that is not a grammar tree itself, but is talking about the tree. I think maybe learning what meta means may help.

Quote #2(my bolds are the part I’m going to refer to):

@Dface

@ActiveMind

Whenever only “Hank” or “Rearden” is used in AS it’s actually a shorthand for “Hank Rearden”, they’re always referring to the specific person which is Hank Rearden.

I think the author made it easy to see she’s referring to Hank Rearden when one of the names are brought up. I don’t remember seeing the name Rearden and being confused if it’s referring to his wife Lillian, his brother Phillip, or his mom.

I don’t know. The bolded part just sounds like me not remembering if the author referred to another character as “Rearden” besdies Hank Rearden. I don’t see if it’s meta-discussion or not.