- For one to learn, one should interact.
- Instead of maintaining parallelism, the heptapods wrote their actions in a single logogram instead of two separate ones
- Their script isn’t word-divided compared to the way we communicate
- The heptapods used a nonlinear system of orthography that qualified as true writing
- They use grammar in two dimensions
- Their writing system is different from their speech system
- Their “semagram” system: language had no written punctuation, a “sentence” seemed to be whatever number of semagrams a heptapod wanted to join together
- “The only difference between a sentence and a paragraph, or a page, was size”
- Bigger sizes of sentences are sometimes hypnotic
- Human attempted to use spherical coordinate system with geometry and algebra
- Word orders are not important in Heptapod language
- For Heptapods, strokes in sentences are designed to represent different clauses of the message and built sentences out of strokes irrespective of individual semagrams -> comparable to our calligraphic designs except we plan out the design carefully
