Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Metaphor is embodied in language.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
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