PELAGIC TEXTUAL ACCRETIONS: Some thoughts about linguistic orogeny IMAGE: A linguistic landmass moving towards subducted molten lava. Jules: Amazing how rocks become buried, only to rise up again millions of years later. Ellesha: (Confidently nodding) The same thing happens with words. Each thing in creation has a limited lifespan. Eventually all manifestations become subducted into the pelagic depths of oblivion. Jules: Aren't you carrying the analogy too far? Orogeny and linguistics seem totally unrelated. Ellesha: No two things in the universe are totally unrelated. The connections are there. The only thing missing is our capacity to perceive. ===================================================================================== from _Let the waters be my witness: Messages about our watery world_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: An image of some subducting text and conversation about lexical plate movements KEYWORDS: subducted text, electrostatic fields, semantic shifts, lexical subducting Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 1999 in Taipei, Taiwan / Finished: 2023 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/BlueEarth/subduction.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/BlueEarth/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/BlueEarth/star.htm