Alien Languages: Not Human
Contrary to Hollywood and the majority of fictional languages, alien languages are almost certainly not going to look like human ones. They’re not going to have the same sounds, the same word orders,...
View Article“Are We Not (as Good as) Men?”
– paraphrasing The Sayer of the Law. When franchises get stale, Hollywood does reboots — invariably a prequel that tells an origin story retrofitted to segue into already-made sequels either straight...
View ArticleTwittering with Aliens
One of the staples of television and movie science fiction is the universal translator that allows humans and aliens to communicate fairly easily. But the reality is that we aren’t even currently able...
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