what if pinocchio said: "My nose grows now!"

what would happen?

the crunch

Reality would get confused and collapse into a black hole

we enter a paradox.

It will grow a second after the arbitrary "now"

first, it would not grow then it would because he basically lied.

Multiple universes would slam into each other, struggling to occupy the same space in the greater omniverse

Due to the grammatical open ended nature of the statement, and or Pinocchio's intent, different acts could happen. I earn an income now. Doesn't mean that I am earning an income in the moment, could mean that a decade ago, I didn't work or earn money, but I do, and have and will for the foreseeable future.

If Pinocchio is aware his nose tends to grow, and this is his intended use of the phrase, his nose wouldn't grow at that moment, as well as still technically be true. If Pinocchio's intent was more specifically in the moment... "My nose grows, now!" and his intent was deception because he knows the criteria for nose growth and knows this isn't it, then his nose would grow, even though factually, that is what happened. If Pinocchio was genuinely curious, with no intent to deceive or be utmost sincere, his nose would split into two and lil metal flesh crab men would pour out of the splinters of Pinocchio's nose and then they would devour him, and then seek refuge under the soil where they will wait until the time is right...

@sc:

Are you Gepetto?

he dies a painful death

but really it would just not grow right then, but a couple seconds later when it didn't grow and was proven to be a lie, it should then grow

Something would happen.

Simple, it's nose would grow.

It would grow then shrink back to normal.

@ad-arts: but then he wouldn’t be lying so why would it grow

He would be lying before it started growing, so it would grow a bit and stopped growing.

No thanks, I prefer Ice Cream!

@sc:

Hazelnut or Pinocchio?

His nose would grow. Saying "my nose grows now!" technically implies that it would occur instantaneously, which I'm sure it actually takes a few seconds at most. However, if his nose does grow instantly, ignore this.

I like this logic a lot. Very clever.

Paradox! O_O

yes