[meta] Leitmotif

[maradydd]

It occurred to me that I should say a little about the common thread that underpins pretty much everything I've written here since lifting radio silence, and will continue to do so for some time.

So I alluded to the whole aspie thing 1 a few posts back. The interesting thing there is, when I first decided to look into the various non-normative

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[michiexile]

Oh there is a LOT that language works as an approach for. A ridiculous amount of science, really.

Tying formal tie knots for instance. :-)

[maradydd]

Once upon a time I read a few things about knot theory, but you are going to have to unpack that one.

[michiexile]

So Fink & Mao published a few articles back at this past «mille anni passi sunt»; using ideas from statistical mechanics (read combinatorics) to figure out a classification of possible tie knots for formal neckties

[whswhs]

I'm not sure that I buy the theory that formal language and the stuff human beings actually use to communicate have an interesting genus in common. It seems to me that calling them both "language" may be an equivocation.

[rjgrady]

In my work as a counselor, a lot of what I did was teach people to use language to unpack their thinking. In a lot of ways, good counseling techniques are cybernetically grounded.

[moof]

Logopolis always was one of my favorite Dr Who episodes.

[00goddess]

Wow, that NLD link sure took me back.