Unlike speech, a logogram is free of time Hello. In the movie called Arrival (2016), linguists all around world are studying an alien language. A US scientist says: "There's no correlation between what a heptapod says and what a heptapod writes. Unlike all written human languages, their writing is semasiographic. It conveys meaning; it doesn't represent sound. Perhaps they view our form of writing as a wasted opportunity, passing up a second communications channel. We have our friends in Pakistan to thank for their study of how heptapods write. Because, UNLIKE SPEECH, A LOGOGRAM IS FREE OF TIME. Like their ship or their bodies, their written language has no forward or backward direction. Linguists call this non-linear orthography." Just in case, here's examples of their writing: https://conlang.stackexchange.com/questions/53/is-the-alien-writing-in-arrival-really-a-language-can-we-form-custom-sentence Perhaps, this question might sound silly to you, but could you, please, tell me what the sentence set in all caps means?