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Reading this reminds of some of the crazy Sovereign Citizen and redemptionist movement ideas about "Correct Language" or "Quantum Language". For some reason they believe that by eschewing verbs and using punctuation creatively, they can somehow compel the state to excuse them from taxes, debt, the need for a driving license etc etc.

It's sort of a semantic magical thinking and I find it fascinating.

The inventor seems to have been this guy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wynn_Miller



Holy shit, this guy is having a legit schizophrenic episode and everyone around him thinks "I don't understand this, it must be brilliant".

From his site: http://dwmlc.com/dwm/pages/page.php?page=10

> FOR THE COURT OF THE WRITTEN-MOTION IS WITH THE FICTION BY THE MODIFICATION OF THE WRITTEN-WORD. FOR THE AFFIRMATION(OUTSIDE OF THE NOW-TIME-QUANTUM) OF THE PERJURY(FICTION OF THE LANGUAGE-CLAIMS) OF THIS PARLIAMENTARY(KINGS)-MOTION-PLEADINGS AGAINST THE PARTY.

Compare to the example in the wiki article on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad


Welp ... that's what happens when you think verbs are a conspiracy and try to base a legal theory on it.

To me the most bizarre aspect is the central one - you think that the government is a conspiracy, that sometime in the past, more than a century ago, the whole thing was usurped by this massive conspiracy who are systematically keeping down the common man, and controlling everything.

And you think if you say the magic combination of word-salad they're going to be forced somehow to stop it and recognise you? Like "Uh, yeah, this guy knows the magic words, guess we don't get to oppress him now, you're free to go sir" instead of "What? we took over the whole government, back in your box, slave"

Because that totally makes sense.

--edit-- Oh wow, yeah that word salad page really does look like this stuff!


Time Cube: Electric Boogaloo


Afaik “quantum language” is a term for legitimate, and still ongoing, attempts at finding the semantic core of human languages. Possibly not ‘the’ accepted term, but used in some papers.


Oh interesting, but I think it's probably a little different from the weird, verb-lite, ALL CAPS fest of the Miller stuff.




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