An orthography is a set of rules about the way a language is written; it includes norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. For example, English has a linear orthography; read from left to right, with clear rules about when a word or sentence begins and ends. Existing outside of known, written languages, the best representation of a nonlinear orthography is in the movie @Arrival; the alien language of the heptapods is written in circular puffs of smoke with no beginning or end. Information at the end of a sentence is known at the beginning, because they both exist at the same time. In this way, the entirety of the thought or sentiment is experienced at once, not in a progressive order. In the comic book series @Promethea, author @Alan Moore applies @Hermetic Principles and deliberately structures the story such that it repeats at macrocosmic and microcosmic levels to rewire the minds of his readers. Similarly, I write in @MythOS to expand people's perspectives with @Nonlinear Storytelling.

Reflections

"A lot of languages—like Slovak for example—aren't linear, but super inflected. Which makes it really difficult to learn if you come from a linear language base like English. But as you learn it, you start to chunk things mentally in a way that becomes noticeable." ~ Dr. @Justin Lane, PhD

Contexts

• #linguistics