Gary and I were at a little Chinese restaurant, one of the local places we hadtakentopatronizingtogetawayomtheencampment.
I wonder why she does not try to fight the future of divorce and her daughter's eventual death and continues to go on dates with Gary? This confuses me.
And the light ray has to know allthat ahead of time, before it starts moving, right?
This is exactly how the heptapods have to know exactly how their sentences will end before they talk.
Noonecouldlayoutsuchanintricatedesignatthespeedneededforholdingaconversa-tion. At least, no human could.
I think it is very interesting that they have the ability to plan out an entire sentence before it is said, as this is not something humans have the ability to do in our language, but their language has adapted to it to be more effective.
semagrams
Definition: ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts which helps to disambiguate interpretation.
orldview did the heptapods have, that they wouldconsiderFermat’sPrinciplethesimplestexplanationoflightreaction
This reminds me of Babel-17's point about how languages are created around what a society considers important.
both were systems of describing the same physical universe.
I think this is a very interesting point and shows the parallels between language and physics/math. Although there are different languages and ways to solve math problems, both are systems of describing the same universe.