Language Is The Foundation Of Civilization. It Is The Glue That Holds A People Together. It Is The First

Reading Middle English Texts feel like:

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So, Hannah, this is where your story begins. The day they departed. Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve 

Despite knowing the journey… and where it leads… I embrace it… and I welcome every moment of it.

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

American Sign Language in Supernatural

Sam + ASL

A1-A2: man, there're so many words I need to know in order to say literally anything

B1-B2: wow, what I know is enough now

C1-C2: man, there're so many weirdly specific words I need to know in order to describe these weirdly specific things I've only seen once in my life. Also I forgot how to say ceiling.

if you're a student at all, please take care of yourself. you don't need to compete with your classmates for who slept the least or who drank the most coffee. eat breakfast and go to sleep a little earlier. lay off studying for a night and do something nice for yourself. your body and brain will thank you.

Trying to decide whether or not to be excited when I start seeing a lot of overlap between my CS theory classes and my linguistics classes, specifically syntax and phonetics.

Like, I knew they go hand in hand really well (obviously, since I'm studying both) but its a whole other thing to see how they are both systematically approached in very similar ways.

Still, I tried to ponder questions formulated in terms more familiar to me: what kind of worldview did the heptapods have, that they would consider Fermat’s principle the simplest explanation of light refraction? What kind of perception made a minimum or maximum readily apparent to them?

ARRIVAL (2016) dir. Denis VILLENEUVE based on Story of Your Life (1999) by Ted CHIANG