Ooops

I hate when I don't do something for a while. After a certain uncomfortable period, it becomes such that even though I need to do it, I get scared of it, and I do nothing about it for even longer. Sometimes it bites me in the ass. Sometimes it has no negative repercussions. Kinda like not posting in my blog for months. But w/e. Here I am. Just try and dislodge me now!

(It probably wouldn't be that hard)

The last three minutes or so of Korn's "Dirty" off Issues is just static. Now you know that. I just learned myself, so don't feel bad if you didn't know. I hadn't yet listened to that album full through. Now I'm listening to Korn. Good stuff.

Words are funny things. They gain and lose meaning so much based on personal experience, and yet we expect to be able to properly communicate. Granted, we've got somewhere over half a mil words to explain stuff. But still, it's a strange assumption that everyone will understand you.

The way language-oh man, I love the song Clown-behaves in the personalization of it be all of its users reminds me of the different ways in which animals evolve, based on environment, given that they come from the same root. Like say there is one large island, flanked by two smaller ones. One day there's a huge storm. A flock of sparrows from the main island gets blown into two smaller flocks. Each half ultimately finds port on a different smaller island and remains there, theoretically interminably. Return in centuries or whatever and they'll have developed in divergent directions, to some degree. I mean, that's a pretty weak-sauce example, but it's the principle. This is something that actually happens. And yes, I was thinking of Charlie when I thought this example.

But anyway, that's how language acts in all our heads. I think it's pretty neat. That's where dialects come from, on a larger (and communal) scale, and even separate languages, if you want to go that far. Personalization based on experience and/or personal perspective shapes so much about our world.

Things to think about-Zeitgeist.