Anonymous asked: re: politics and linguistics. you know how with a lot of animals there's the thing where conspicifics who smell wrong are killed or run off, but then if they smell the same when they meet the others they're accepted? it feels to me that dialect, accent, and jargon are the human analogue to this, maybe because of how wired people are for language. if you don't have the right smell then even if everything else is spot-on you're stuck in the uncanny valley