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Anthropology

PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. And at least they were humans, speaking and writing in a human language.

Reply to Jim__ (Original post)

Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:11 AM

Sep 2020

They need to hire the linguist expert in the movie Arrival. She translated a totally alien language in a matter of weeks. I'm being a bit sarcastic. The rather rapid understanding and translation of the alien language was sufficiently unbelievable to me that I just am not as enamored of that movie as most people are.

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The mathematical values of Linear A fraction signs [View all] Jim__ Sep 2020 OP

And at least they were humans, speaking and writing in a human language. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #1

I didn't see that movie. Jim__ Sep 2020 #2

Do read it. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #3