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RedTailHawk

You just led me to the subtitle of my book I'm writing.

Occult green language is alternatively known as "The Language of the Birds".

As of right now, I cannot imagine a better name for this book:

"What's in a Name?: The Language of the Birds" by Red Tail Hawk.

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RedTailHawk 1mo ago 💬 1

So, the other day, nostr:npub14d7ezuzsy55f6c2f4k02r27yeexyj42a7uvsfu53xmpzx7z75mmsnw0xv0 asked nostr for movie recs.

Thinking about the intersection of her known interests and movies that might've slipped past unnoticed when released, I suggested The Librarian and the Quest for the Spear.

I remembered enjoying it the first time I watched it, which was at some point within the last 3 years so I threw it on again. I had totally forgotten that "the language of the birds" was featured in that movie. The Librarian character decodes the language of the birds in about 7 hours. Hat's off to him. I'm on month 34 lol. Perhaps I thought initially that the language of the birds was just some fabricated plot point, but now I know better. It was a Hollywood distortion of something very real.

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whit 1mo ago 💬 1

It’s always in the birds 🐦… right 🫂🥳🤙😱

RedTailHawk 1mo ago 💬 1

Philologists hate me.

I see connections where they do not because they never looked anywhere but their textbooks and lecture hall chalk boards.

So much of my research is word analysis though and I'm a fucking mathematician, not a linguist (although technically math IS a language and an art form).

It's the perfect book title, except for one thing.

Ornithologists are going to join the philologists in hating me when they buy my book thinking its a book for bird word nerds or some weird niche like that.

whit 1mo ago

Magic 🪄