Observation: it is fascinating to notice the "grooves" of language. Language is a multilayered affair. Humor, slang, register, sarcasm, irony...when we are speaking our native tongue, we hang out deep in the grooves, without realizing it. There are phrases and meanings that we have communicated nearly every day since we started speaking, and it is often these aspects of the language that exhibit the most idiosyncrasy, and often use the shortest words. Example: the English phrase "Let me see." Short words, and usually pronounced "lemme see." In Brazil, the phrase is "Deixa eu ver." Again, short words, and the pronunciation is quite clipped "Cho ver." Phrases like these seem to me like well-worn wood, worn down from the steps of thousands of people (literally, the pronunciation wears down so much, and yet is still intelligble"), whereas other aspects of language, that are less used in everday conversation, are less embedded? It's like Khatz about being able to read the paper in your second language, but not being able to describe what that drunk guy is going on the other side of the train. Sabe?

I need to keep in mind (isn't this the hardest thing? Just remembering the path) that it is more important to keep making, to favor quantity over quality. The more milk there is, the more cream. Keep making shitty things, and cream will naturally develop.