May 18
there’s literally (literal) and literally (figuratively), and i love both until i have to specify by saying “the literal definition of literally. like actually, i’m so serious.”
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there’s literally (literal) and literally (figuratively), and i love both until i have to specify by saying “the literal definition of literally. like actually, i’m so serious.”
Ronnie Pontiac's take on the Orphic Hymns is my favorite BY FAR but I have somehow not posted any of them on here before? they have been available free online since 2013 (and are still up for now) but you can also buy all of them in a recent book, which I shall eventually purchase
Let's settle this once and for all
What Colour is Language Arts?
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rewatched Arrival because my friend hadn't seen it before, and just...gosh. every time I cannot help but get lost in studies & general related language concepts...
like, it wasn't just a silly sci-fi plot device, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is a very real thing. The language you speak, and the metaphors it uses to measure time, ABSOLUTELY have an effect on how you yourself experience time.
what was doubly interesting: they even noticed that bilinguals' experience of this phenomenon actually depends on how proficient they are in the language!!! Just as in the movie, she could not experience the heptapods "gift" until she became proficient in their language!!!!
Points of time, floating around like a nebula, past present & future all happening simultaneously...
I present ……
more weird words:
what should we call this series
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These are choices, you
Have made them and, now, there are
Consequences, ho.
"Though there crashed from sill
many a mead-bench — men have told me —
gay with gold, where the grim foes wrestled.
So well had weened the wisest Scyldings
that not ever at all might any man
that bone-decked, brave house break asunder…
…God’s foe sounding his grisly song,
cry of the conquered, clamorous pain
from captive of hell. Too closely held him
he who of men in might was strongest
in that same day of this our life…
…no keenest blade,
no farest of falchions fashioned on earth,
could harm or hurt that hideous fiend!
He was safe, by his spells, from sword of battle,
from edge of iron. Yet…
…The outlaw dire
took mortal hurt; a mighty wound
showed on his shoulder, and sinews cracked,
and the bone-frame burst. To Beowulf now
the glory was given, and Grendel thence
death-sick his den in the dark moor sought,
noisome abode: he knew too well
that here was the last of life, an end
of his days on earth. — To all the Danes
by that bloody battle the boon had come.
From ravage had rescued the roving stranger
Hrothgar’s hall; the hardy and wise one
had purged it anew. His night-work pleased him,
his deed and its honor."
-- Beowulf