Film: Arrival by Mai https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07 Comments, questions, and responses from everyone! en-us 2018-02-24 18:42:28 UTC 2018-03-01 22:50:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Watchclock.png Maisarah https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236183616 historian linguist?
being there to interact, why? But I mean why translating the sound files is not enough and she needs to be there?
confident of ability to talk with them!
Good point doctor!


]]> 2018-02-27 22:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236183616 Yo ho https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236183620 This is Kelly. Rar!]]> 2018-02-27 22:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236183620 Abdullah https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236183766 2018-02-27 22:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236183766 AA. aalnahawi https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236183921 2018-02-27 22:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236183921 Circular Languages bishop_benjamin https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236184637 So! Languages are generally not found to be circular due to spacial concerns, as is the case in this movie. However, many fictional languages (including this one and Gallifreyan) are circular, and cuneiform and certain ancient languages show evidences of this, such as the Fuente Magna bowl and other pottery writings. Thoughts? ]]> 2018-02-27 22:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236184637 Well this does seem fictional. A linguistics course this big? mkuha https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236187987 2018-02-27 22:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236187987 mkuha https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236189898 I think those whale-like sounds in the background are supposed to be reminiscent of what the aliens' speech sounds like?

]]> 2018-02-27 22:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236189898 Symbolism mkuha https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236192976 One movie critic pointed out that the visual experience here reverses our usual expectations: darkness is the known, light is the frightening unknown.

]]> 2018-02-27 22:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236192976 ALIENS! bishop_benjamin https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236193496 Many evolutionary biologists and certain physicists (Stephen Hawking counted therein), are of the opinion that, if life exists on other planets, they likely closely resemble octopi or cephalopods, as is the case here]]> 2018-02-27 22:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236193496 mkuha https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236193773 As far as we know, we have not made a huge amount of progress learning about whalesongs, and we have been sharing a planet with them for a while, so it does seem unrealistic to try to parse these aliens' sounds.]]> 2018-02-27 22:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236193773 Maisarah https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236194317 Would saying 'human' be like introducing own name?]]> 2018-02-27 22:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236194317 mkuha https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236194331 What kind of biology would allow them to "write" like this??

]]> 2018-02-27 22:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236194331 Written L1 bishop_benjamin https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236194637 Intriguing here is also the point that the aliens seem to speak with a written language, making the writing a possible L1. Given that most written language is not an L1, but rather an encoding thereof, it seems intriguing that this would be decided as the case for the alien communication.]]> 2018-02-27 22:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236194637 mkuha https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236195292 OK, any problems here with her explanation of problems illustrated with "what is your purpose here" ?]]> 2018-02-27 22:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236195292 Isn't that a tomato symbol?! https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236195556 2018-02-27 22:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236195556 HEY, ABBOTT!!!! bishop_benjamin https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236196437 The Abbott and Costello joke may be a reference to the classic "Who's on first" sketch, wherein wordplay and misunderstanding of complex names is the punchline.]]> 2018-02-27 23:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236196437 Language production for them involves more physical and tangible production as they produce the sort of ink to shape their symbols. https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236196473 2018-02-27 23:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236196473 mkuha https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236197436 "no correlation between what a heptapod writes and what a heptapod says"?? THat is an odd way of saying that they do not happen to have an alphabet.]]> 2018-02-27 23:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236197436 Semigraphic language type? https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236197475 2018-02-27 23:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236197475 A liiiiiiiiiiiiiitle more grandiose than what Sapir and Whorf really seemed to be saying... bishop_benjamin https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236199149 2018-02-27 23:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/236199149 Based upon the right or left store entry: bishop_benjamin https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237211753 Marketing website]]> 2018-03-01 22:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237211753 Maisarah https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237211824 How accurate is saying that language affects dreams? Has that been investigated cognitive-linguistically?]]> 2018-03-01 22:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237211824 mkuha https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237213122 She sure can read it quickly.

]]> 2018-03-01 22:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237213122 Maisarah https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237213233 Is the guy now a linguist?

]]> 2018-03-01 22:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237213233 Has the Chinese translated the symbol slightly differently? https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237214142 2018-03-01 22:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237214142 Did she say "this segment is a lot busier or a lot easier"? https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237214432 2018-03-01 22:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237214432 Time! mkuha https://padlet.com/mkuha/1t31ic41le07/wish/237217687 What is happening with time?

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