this is super cool because i take the same thought to the opposite conclusion, some ideas just being more right in one language than another just indicates to me how language 'captures'--for lack of a better word(lmao)--everything.

but like even very simple arithmetic or instantaneous reactions to me feels like responding to a language, purpleworm is coming at me for such a loose definition of language but uhhhh i think many rulesets (games, cinematography, math) work like language and i'm just 'speaking' it, lol.

re: e: not really just 'academically fluent' in field specific writing

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

but that is very loose definition of language, if your fleeting thought (of say legality of move in chess or that putting this many holes in the chair is structurally unsound) requires 10 words to express it (this side of "fuck this" in chess language), i don't think it's real language first, it's your idea you can translate into english in so many words, but it's not like cluster of words arising in your brain (or is it?).

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

(or is it?)

god isn't this fun? it's really wack since language =/= writing, so i'm uncomfortable designating 'chess language' as not language just cause you can't write it down, right? we're basically the comic of two people looking at the 6/9 on the ground lol