In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...
When asked how much of the alien language used by the franchise’s central hunter species he is able to speak, “Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg quickly answers “zero.” “My mouth will not ...
Imagine if, when aliens make first contact with humans, not only do they not speak English, but they don’t even use spoken words. The problem (and the reason why the Army’s own cryptographers are ...