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> It is often said that learning a new language can reframe or expand your world view. That was sort of the whole concept of Arrival; but in an even more extre
by ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
> It is often said that learning a new language can reframe or expand your world view.
That was sort of the whole concept of Arrival; but in an even more extreme way.
- Eisenstein 1y agoLearning an alien language allowed people to disconnect their consciousness from linear time, allowing them to do things in the past with knowledge they gained later, though I seem to recall they didn't know why they did it at the time, or how they had gotten that information.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI'll have to watch it again. I suffer from C.R.A.F.T. (Can't Remember A Fucking Thing).
- ben_w 1y agoLois Lane and Hawkeye play Pictionary with a squid inside one segment from a fleet made out a massive Terry's Chocolate Orange, each part of which is hovering over a different part of the world in exactly the way real chocolate oranges don't.