言葉 / Words
Watching old GITS SAC: 2nd GIG episodes. Most of the Japanese dialogue is unintelligible background noise, but occasionally I’ll hear sentence constructs or words I know. They stick out like a sore thumb. It’s shocking, like “why are they using such newbie grammar?”
Or maybe one shouldn’t treat a language with too much reverence and respect. All Japanese falls into two categories, stuff I know and stuff I don’t know yet. Nothing is “beginner” or “advanced.” It’s flat. Emptying one bucket into another.
In some sense, learning a language is backfilling knowledge gaps until you know just enough to understand and say what you need to.
Also, I saw a Tachikoma holding and referencing that famous Richard Dawkins book The Selfish Gene, which I (partially) read last year. Odd confluence.
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