I'm not sure my computer could handle the new Indiana Jones game and I'm genuinely pretty sad about that, it sounds really really good
The biggest disagreement I have with my girlf who I love and adore and who studied archaeology in college for a time is on whether the Indiana Jones movies are cool or not
She's on board with the Nazi killing etc she just takes too much umbrage with the archaeology parts of the movies
And as someone who had trouble getting into certified sci-fi modern classic Arrival for linguistics reasons, I can't really begrudge her
@coriander i just refused to engage critically with the linguistics of arrival when i watched it; i otherwise liked it too much
@aescling Yeah honestly as long as you don't think too much about that, it's phenomenal
The problem is "that" is the foundational conceit of the film
@coriander yeah it’s a big purroblem fur sure
@coriander it is absolutely worth interpreting the shapir-whorf hypothesis but using such a purrepawstrous purremise as your vehicle fur it just does not work
@coriander it would be a lot better if it did not try to say anything about language
@coriander like even the idea that human language is “linear” is Extremely contestable
@coriander it is mediated by a form of communication that is linear but it is absolutely not clear that the underlying mechanisms, internal representation, whatever are. linguists generally do not model language in a way that can be remotely considered linear at all
@coriander i mean, i would not call trees linear
@aescling @coriander “linear” in the sense of having a one-dimensional serialization but not in the sense of that one dimension being perceived linearly with time; reading often involves a lot of jumping and backfilling
@aescling @coriander and i think it’s easy to argue that paralinguistic cues are signalled along a different axis than syntactic structures so it is multidimensional in that sense too
@aescling Linguistic models are relatively lineal but they also involve a lot of weird shit like Movement