Premise: A psychic whose insights come from the middle letters of sentences. The real middle letters, unspoken and usually unknown. These physic’s readings are based on interpretations of the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Interpretations of the 26 letters are based on broad studies of numerous analytics including but hardly limited to: commonality in print matter and recorded conversations; frequency of letters in words of peace or hate; intensity with which the letters are inflected or accentuated in common curse words; associations and riddles found through onomatopoeia, ambigrams, and puns; etc.

TO THE AIRLINE

The middle letter of those words is E. Middle E. Middle E has special meaning to this psychic, as it represents common ground and a pleasing harmony. E is the most common letter, especially in its lower case form, so a sentence whose true center is E has universality at its core. This means that TO THE AIRLINE means more than a passing reference to someone else’s travels. It means you should travel as a way of establishing a kinship with humanity.

People don’t realize how thick the linguistics of spelling and verbiage go. It goes deeper than letters you see or spell. The words you spell have innards, and inbetweens. This is not mystical. It is a depth to the system of language and the logic of constructing words and sentences. You don’t just spit out words, you calculate their meaning based on parallel clusters of letters and words in between.

LAZY is, ironically, a vast word, spanning the entire alphabet within 4 mere letters. The middle is MN, or mn. If lazy is spelled Lazy then we might make the middle Mn, a mixed-case diad which the curious psychic turns upside down to form Uw, or uW. Lower-case mn is turned 45 degrees counter-clockwise to form a c on top of a 3, perhaps requiring the psychic to consult chemistry references or technology company trademarks for insight into the laziness of he to whom the term is applied, or to whom applied it.

Let’s see what the psychic thinks is the true center of some sentences overheard or read in newspapers.

SALES OF ANTIDOTE

Middle letter is A, unless we account for blank spaces, which makes the middle letter the space between a blank and an A. For clarity we use the underscore character _ for lower-case blanks, and the bare macron ¯ for upper case blanks.

_A is a visual glyph representing a traveller hauling heavy or precious cargo, dragging it on the ground behind them. ¯A represents a structure about to be hit by a flying projectile. Lower-case _a represents a turning back toward that cargo seen in _A, a recompense of its merits and worth, a re-evaluation of whether it’s worth the continued work of transporting it. Thus, the true center of “SALES OF ANTIDOTE” will vary depending on its case, but in 2 out of 3 interpretations the psychic concludes that the phrase’s center has something to do with the transfer and contemplation of cargo.

If blanks spaces are ignored then the middle letter is a solid A, a towering center of positive energy and beginnings.

VEAL

The center of VEAL is an inverse C, or a reverse C. A number of Unicode representations exist to mimic the reverse C. The normal C represents an opening toward the balance of a word or sentence. it lays calmly open as if speaking the words to come, or else threatening to consume all that comes after it. This portentousness explains why so few words end in C, and when they do the endings lack highest uplift. CYNIC. CHAOTIC. PATHETIC. Even the more positive seeming words have openings for dismay. EMPATHETIC seems positive but really it is a means for individuals to sympathize with a losing cause. One who IS empathetic might be positive in outlook but all that she surveys is not.

EMPHATIC, ORGIASTIC, HEROIC – These words seem ebullient but to the psychic they represent extremes from which all joy will be drained.

PICNIC with its 2 Cs seems like a bucolic and peacable construct, opening with a C at the middle and another C at the end in an apparent flourish of optimism. Then one remembers insects and bugbites that accompany these outings, and unfulfilled dreams of picnics planned and discussed but never arranged. Picnics are a romantic construct for lovers young and old but how often do these picnics signal anything but a peaceful life together? How often do we look back on picnics that actually occured and heap disdain upon them? How often do we remember picnics that never happened only to feel sad that they could and should have been made to happen, if only to either save the romance or bring some joy to its memory?

The center of PICNIC is HI, a perfect center built from the infinite alphabet, but one which may be deceptive from what we know of the word from previous analysis.

The infinite alphabet comprises the perfect letters:

A H I M N O T U V W X Y

These letters are the same whether they are seen from the front or in mirror image. The word YAMAHA is a famous brand name. Seen in mirror image it reads AHAMAY. AHAMAY might be known to branding executives at YAMAHA, but it might be too subtle in its origins for that level of concentration.

The semi-perfect letters are all lower case. These letters offer other opportunities for psychic messaging, since they form other letters when upside down or when seen in mirror image:

b d i l m n o p q s t u v w x

We also include the numbers 0 1 3 6 8 9 although 6 and 9 are outlying figures. They are used only for inverse purposes, where 6 is 9 and 9 is 6 when turned over. 3, reversed, can be used as an E.

Using both perfect and semi-perfect letter essentially leaves us with an English alphabet minus C E F G J K R and Z, as well as 2 4 5 and 7, with 6 and 9 relegated to limited use. Lacking an E is the thorniest problem facing infinite alphabet communication, as E is the most common letter in the English language. Neither upper nor lower case E can be interpreted as a letter in mirror image or inverse, although the unlikely use of E as a number 3 in mirror image remains a possibility.

We center our words around the missing letters to fill the seeming gaps presented by the infinite alphabet. Imperfect letters are seen all the time when one knows how to look for them

End of “Premise”. It is not perfect but I think there is something here for the cunning linguist that I always wanted to be.