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[xenoglots]

hey generally on all of my blogs i am TERRIBLE at writing starters and plotting w/o like, writing and getting a feel for us as writers writing with each other / our muses and how they fit first so like. my blogs don’t usually have starter calls. pls don’t think this as me not wanting to write with you ! i just am bad at off the cuff shit usually, and don’t wanna push it. if you wanna get Wild N Crazy re: linguistics / aliens / existential crises about the idea of free will or lackof, lmk ! also, louise is a professor so if you have a muse that’s a college student, hello easy way of getting interaction u feel ? anyway, ims are a way to get at me and we can plot -––– i also have skype if you’d rather, and discord. or if i reblog a meme feel free to send me one. or if i answer one and you dig where it seems to be going, thread it in a separate post, i love doing that ! ( btw, here’s my meme tag and generally i always accept meme prompts, thanks ! ) if we’re mutuals, just throw shit in my tag if you have an idea and wanna ! this is overall a slow blog, with my jo blog ( @illripyourthroat ) being my primary one / others reopening once i get my shit handled slightly better ( lol tbd when ), but i very much love the film arrival, aliens, spacetime, and languages so much so i will never let this die.

[xenoglots]

RANDOM ASS TEXT POST DESCRIBING SOME OF THE SHIT I USE AS MY TAGS BECAUSE THEY ARE WONDERFUL FUN LINGUISTIC CONCEPTS, THANKS.

COLORLESS GREEN IDEAS SLEEP FURIOUSLY. a quote from noam chomsky that he wrote to show that a sentence can be grammatically correct but semantically nonsensical. it shows the lack of a connection between the syntax of a sentence and the semantics. he also wrote the next sentence, which was “*furiously sleep ideas green colorless” which, again is nonsense, but also doesn’t make sense grammatically. even though both are not actual possible concepts, we know that the second one is not a correct english sentence. also, there’s the whole idea of the statistics that this was literally the first time this sentence had ever been uttered due to its lack of true meaning, something pretty profound with how long language has been around, but i digress. 

UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR is another chomsky thing because when you study linguistics step 1 is to get all up in this dude’s shit, honestly. also referred to as mental grammar, this is the theory that the ability to learn a native tongue is hardwired in every human’s brain, and that as long as a person is brought up in a quote-unquote normal setting language acquisition will manifest. this goes into then the language acquisition period within a child’s life that they can learn native-speaker level of a language, and also goes into the reason why it’s so easy when one is younger to learn a language.  y’all know what a PALINDROME is if you’ve seen the movie, and it’s obvious why i have it as my hannah tag, but my in character tag is also a palindrome. ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD, WE FEW, DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA ? reads the same backwards and forwards. the idea of there being no cohesive beginning or end is a very important concept to this movie and therefore this blog, and also i wanted to make sure for anything ic it’d be a palindrome. i read it even further with the actual context of the sentence irt going forward to a new era and louise’s story, but i will suffer quietly over this on my own, thanks.

a GARDEN PATH SENTENCE is one that starts one way but ends in a way you don’t first expect it to end. they are grammatically correct and usually require a re-reading because your brain, by the end, has to reinterpret it to actually grasp the meaning. one example is “the prime number few.” at first it seems like the syntax is incorrect, but reading prime as the noun instead of prime number as the noun phrase makes it understandable. a PARAPROSDOKIAN is similar in this concept, where the ending word(s) in a sentence completely change the meaning. often humorous, a lot of famous quotes use this. for example, einstein’s “the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

the self tag is REFLEXIVE, aka a pronoun that refers back to the subject. the IMPERFECT INDICATIVE is a verb tense that expresses the concept of habitual actions of the past that are no longer occuring aka lol my ian tag. not every language has an actual set tense for this idea. SEMANTIC SATIATION is the phenomenon where repetition causes one to forget the meaning of a word or phrase. SZALÁMITAKTIKA is not a linguistic concept, but instead referred to in the movie but never said. it literally means “salami tactics” in hungarian, and is the idea of beating your opponent slice by slice before they even realize it.

i think those are all my fun ones okay thank u, have a good night.

[xenoglots]

that’s it, so many of my tags are random concepts in linguistics and i wanna talk about them so i’m going to make a post about them, thanks.

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yooooooooooooooo i've never seen arrival but your writing on this blog is like ESPECIALLY good shit like i read everything on all your blogs but i really love your writing on louise because it challenges my thinking and makes me think more and try to understand something that's so confusing to me and when you break it down it's like 'I UNDERSTAND THIS HOLY SHIT GEM' and i just. GOOOOOD SHIT YOU DOIN HERE

TBH I’M SURPRISED WITH MY OWN WRITING ON THIS BLOG ???? like the canon and what i have to really think about and analyze is really interesting and surprising for myself as well and what i have to come up with and even discover within my own writing. it’s definitely pushing me as a writer, which is what i look for mainly within a muse. i have always loved non-linear stories / writing, and being able to mix that in with linguistics & linguistical ideas is literally a dream come true tbh. this is like. really awesome to hear tho because this blog is definitely a piece of uncharted territory to me that i’ve always wanted to combine, and a challenge both systematically and stylistically so LIKE HEARING A COMPLIMENT ABOUT IT AND AN ENJOYMENT OF MY WRITING IS A LOT THANK YUO YOU’RE THE BEST PS EVERYONE GO SEE ARRIVAL FOREVER THANK U HEARING THAT YOU READ MY THREADS IS A LOT THIS IS A GREAT FEEL GOOD