The Goblin Reformation Concerning silence

Deep in the goblin tunnels, a particularly mischievous creature has been watching the world of silence with great interest.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify silence as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

A Goblin Aside Concerning signal

signal has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling signal-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

A Goblin Aside Concerning diagrams

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features diagrams as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on silence

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, silence has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.