{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "i know i\u2019ve made this post before, but i just, really like how category theory tends to lead people to write sentences that use...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/179097979823/", "html": "<p><a href=\"http://twocubes.tumblr.com/post/179007576728/i-know-ive-made-this-post-before-but-i-just\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">twocubes</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>i know i\u2019ve made this post before, but i just, really like how category theory tends to lead people to write sentences that use diagrams as clauses??</p>\n<p>like, you look at</p>\n<figure data-orig-width=\"614\" data-orig-height=\"876\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_pgj8xeK4Id1rvygku_1280_885f118ed7e0.png\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"614\" data-orig-height=\"876\"/></figure><p>and it\u2019s a completely normal sentence! which feels very natural to write or read! but, well, there\u2019s no way to convert those diagrams to\u2026 words. there\u2019s no <i>order</i> in which they\u2019re supposed to be read, no <i>convention</i> for how it\u2019s supposed to turn into sounds in your brain, and in fact it\u2026 just doesn\u2019t, yknow? you switch between\u00a0\u201cread words\u201d mode and\u00a0\u201cdecrypt diagram\u201d mode without even <i>thinking</i> about it and the whole thing somehow parses as a sentence in your brain anyways.</p>\n<p>you also get incredibly cool stuff like</p>\n<figure data-orig-width=\"619\" data-orig-height=\"250\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_pgj9j9wMn21rvygku_1280_73e78896985b.png\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"619\" data-orig-height=\"250\"/></figure><p>i mean just look! <i>he put a semicolon after the diagram</i>! a semicolon actually needs to be there or the thing won\u2019t be grammatical! here after something that is not written to be expressable in words! it\u2019s so! ugh! i love it!!!</p>\n<p>in fact there\u2019s like, multiple conventions as to where the punctuation is supposed to go after diagrams. johnstone above has been kind of old fashioned w/ putting the punctuation after the first line, these days people tend to write stuff like</p>\n<figure data-orig-width=\"863\" data-orig-height=\"316\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_pgj9lmeqOa1rvygku_1280_26a0a890ad0a.png\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"863\" data-orig-height=\"316\"/></figure><p>where the punctuation goes after the rightmost symbol of the bottommost line of the diagram.</p>\n<p>anyways. isn\u2019t that neat? like, linguistically.</p>\n</blockquote>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_inline_pgj8xeK4Id1rvygku_1280_885f118ed7e0.png", "thumbnail_width": 614, "thumbnail_height": 876}