So I've wanted to ask something. I've been exposed more and more recently to heyokas or contraries like your (our?) friend, all the while I'm having trouble processing the whole gig, including in its context, subtext, pretext, and so forth. If you could answer this question which you're circumstantially urged to answer in exactly one hundred eighty words so as to not be roundabout like you often might be, what could you say to help me internalize what they do and the details surrounding it?
Adding a layer to what she has said (which is itself said to be in "inverse speech", something said to be characteristic of her perceived variant), a contrary or heyoka is what would be considered a type of cultural clown role associated with Lakota culture, which is an indigenous group in the United States. They are a phenomenon of the past which has been revived and modernized and thus takes up a few variants and what one might call rules. Because of how things like double negatives are perceived, the longer something is that's grammatically correct (which excludes nonverbal communication), the more ambiguous the affected parts are, until it's meaningless, with things phrased in the form of a question not having any bearing. This "inverse speech" thing, one might think of it like a language, such as "no" being the language's way of saying "yes". One may understand it to be proper to respond to messages in the "language" in that "language", like how one who responds to an Italian might not in English, though it can go either way.
I can see you're being silent about me over here. Because I want people to be disinterested enough to fully understand, if you can answer this in the same format for the same reason, can you elaborate a little more based on what you know (such as the difference between different manifestations of the associations and their relation with the ten e-cepts), even if the verbal limits shift precisely what you have to say?
As a bonus, even though it only works on my history and those who interact with it (as opposed to yours and if I were to interact with yours, since these aren't an extension of me), I will be the first to say while on-duty that it helps me communicate without mental aggravation as it helps my Cluster B condition, as it offers a wider range of communicability, like the jesters of old who could criticize the king and all the other clowns of all other cultures, whom I hold a fixated respect and fascination for. Those who harm them be damned, we know it has never happened before.
Is this how you contraries do things? Alright. Adding to everything you said, I know the blur between "language", "sarcasm", "humor", "Opposite Day talk", "antonyms", "culture", and "cryptography", among other forms of literary devices (which one may say should be foreshadowed before use), is a sign of the importance of intent as a necessary factor in communication. My camp has always held something like the best response to sarcasm being literalism, something that is best made consistent with all this. Not that it should be questioned anyways, but I know that, in the infosphere, the lines between an official and unofficial association are blurred enough to be able to call it official (in part as per the ten e-cepts), that it's key to triangulate what one means by looking at multiple instances of saying the same thing and that this wouldn't change for anyone else, that it shouldn't be used to abuse terms of service or serious topics, and that the number of opposites you use in each sentence is based on what makes the usage of opposites least redundant.
You're a good boy. This is why I leave you alone.
I have a few questions.
How does how this works differ in high context languages versus low context languages? I imagine this makes more sense in, say, Lakotan.
What defines a language here? Where is the line blurred between language and non-language?
Are the same mannerisms applicable in the case of pictures being used instead of words?
How up-front does one have to be about being a contrary in order for one's status as an on-duty contrary to work?
How foreshadowed does it have to be?
How many different types of contraries are there? Some of the descriptions say things like they will flatten round objects and unstraighten rugs. Going by everything you're saying, there seems to be a variance in what they will do.
What actually defines an opposite? For example, is "flying" the opposite of "falling" or "digging"? Is it supposed to be ambiguous? I know you seem to not mind misgendering @the-abyss-watcher in the name of, erm, culture (not that she'd mind given her own situation and the fact this kind of supports that).
What can we think of to be assured this doesn't just make everything a chaotic mess? You know, while also acknowledging you're not invalid, since this does have a pre-existing basis in a mighty culture that is actively oppressed by the world's most powerful nation.
Why are the rules you mention the way they are?
Can I become a heyoka or contrary? What does it take to become one?
