Raymond Hickey's fascinating book asks how 'exobeings', as he calls them, might acquire language - and if we might ever commune with them
WHAT language might an alien use? As a speculative answer, Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi moviecouldn’t be more intriguing.
Louise the linguist is asked to board a spaceship to interpret circles of ink spattered onto glass by ghostly, seven-limbed heptapods. Their circularity expresses the aliens’ non-sequential view of time.is the blunt confidence with which he dismisses‘s circle-language. “No animal would use such a short-supply resource as their ink for primary communication,” he writes. …
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