The expression the Professor found was a little... perplexed. Not necessarily blank, but it had been a lot of information to try to sort on a theoretical level. The Tailor looked back to the Correspondence on the board: the first symbol, the one they had been told not to duplicate. They tried now, very hard, to see what the Professor was seeing.
There was the verb radical. There was the place radical. There was the adjective radical, on the very outside of the symbol, possibly indicating the entire subject was an adjective? Or was it just the looping radical that it claimed as one?
Their mouth moved silently, their finger trying to draw the shape without consigning it to ink, but maybe that in itself was still risk. They didn't know, they weren't paying attention to the action.
"Verb intersecting with place, a verb being done to a place, or in relation to a place--but if it's a negation, the verb cannot be completed... But then why not intersect with the verb? Why the place? The place itself can't have the action done to it?" They shook their head. "Even knowing what the symbol means, I don't think I see all that you're finding."
And then, looking back to the homework: "If it is a negation, then I don't know that these first and last symbols are right. The slash doesn't run parallel to the verb, so would it be attempting to negate the noun?" Their finger tapped on the page. "I keep.... seeing it in a third dimension, if that makes any sense. Like when a thread is run through a fabric, and exists on either side of it and needs to be illustrated as passing through. But that, I think, is a little unlikely."
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Date: 2025-06-20 10:18 pm (UTC)There was the verb radical. There was the place radical. There was the adjective radical, on the very outside of the symbol, possibly indicating the entire subject was an adjective? Or was it just the looping radical that it claimed as one?
Their mouth moved silently, their finger trying to draw the shape without consigning it to ink, but maybe that in itself was still risk. They didn't know, they weren't paying attention to the action.
"Verb intersecting with place, a verb being done to a place, or in relation to a place--but if it's a negation, the verb cannot be completed... But then why not intersect with the verb? Why the place? The place itself can't have the action done to it?" They shook their head. "Even knowing what the symbol means, I don't think I see all that you're finding."
And then, looking back to the homework: "If it is a negation, then I don't know that these first and last symbols are right. The slash doesn't run parallel to the verb, so would it be attempting to negate the noun?" Their finger tapped on the page. "I keep.... seeing it in a third dimension, if that makes any sense. Like when a thread is run through a fabric, and exists on either side of it and needs to be illustrated as passing through. But that, I think, is a little unlikely."