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Imagine aliens existing.How do you imagine their speaking and do they have similarities to the Earth?
I am wondering about a manner of aliens speaking. If we had an opportunity to connect to civilization from far galactic we would have a chance to be aware of their languages.
Indeed, are they speaking the same? What about their sounds structures?
These thoughts like the attention grabber for the linguistic society. Once Richard Dawkin has been immersed into the ravine of that issue so much as having a little speech about that talking with Nil Taison. He has been contemplated about the similarities between mammals living on the different continents. He meant, despite the fact that the mammals have been living separated each other they haven't developed by the completely different way.
They have a lot of the same traits covering their bodies.
So, I would like to have the courage to think the same about aliens. I'm curious about their structures of languages. Is it has nouns, prepositions, verbs? Will we have chances to be talking with them in case they will ever be here?
2019年8月28日 19:25
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Have you watched the movie "Arrival"? If not, I highly recommend it to you because it's about humans figuring out an alien language that is completely different to human language: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd8zT1YAUck" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd8zT1YAUck</a>;. A linguistis take on the movie: <a href="https://davidadger.org/2016/09/23/how-alien-can-language-be/" target="_blank">https://davidadger.org/2016/09/23/how-alien-can-language-be/</a>;.

Also interesting is the novel "The Swarm" by Frank Schätzing, where scientists also have to find a way to communicate with an intelligent alien life form. They find some common ground by using mathematics.

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I also advise you to watch "Arrival"
2019年8月28日
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As far as I know from the American movies, they contact in English. :) Lol
But Arrival is a really amazing movie. I was fascinated with it.
2019年8月28日
Miriam, Thank you! I'll read it tomorrow.
2019年8月28日