ENGL-3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alien Language, Ted Chiang, Li Bai
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Lecture 5: prott is a story about alien languages. Second discussion question is due by the start of the next class. Alien languages is today"s topic: it"s not confined today. It means that the creators wouldn"t have to invent a new alien language each time. We don"t know what blanking the blanki means. The piece of technology that is realistically just a device. The way that the language works is different than the other ones that have previously different. Metaphors comes from kidnaping, logic of substitution. Drops the differences and nuances in the world and then simplifying it. None of the materials we see in objective reality, more like emotional responses. Many myths, but they may only have one interpretation of it. Tome is going by sooo slow, i am falling asleep like every second. Someething that"s frustrating is if someone isn"t speaking to you directly. Language is a strategy instead of an character.
