#language arts

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...

more weird words:

"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."

These are choices, you

Have made them and, now, there are