Arrival – part 2 – Alien Language (feat. Nick Farmer) : Episode 66 - decipher SciFi : the show about how and why
Summary: Stream the movie:<br><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Arrival-Amy-Adams/dp/B01MDTS4VZ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1480390290&sr=8-3&keywords=arrival&tag=decsci05-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Amazon<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Arrival<br> What: Aliens arrive, and talk communicate with a human linguist. In this second episode on the film, we cover all of the language stuff!<br><br> Directed by: Denis Villeneuve<br><br> Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker<br> Featuring guest co-host<br><br> <a href="http://www.decipherscifi.com/about/nick-farmer-linguist/"></a><br><br> <a href="http://www.decipherscifi.com/about/nick-farmer-linguist/">Nick Farmer</a>, linguist, creator of The Expanse’s Belter language<br> Recommended and Related Media<br> <br> Arrival<br><br> Really, go see this movie. Pause the show, see the movie, and then resume. It was so good!<br> Everything by Ted Chiang<br><br> We’ve recommended The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate for its treatment of time travel, but I’m expanding on that here to recommend everything by friend-of-the-show Ted Chiang.<br><br> The story on which the movie is based, Story of Your Life, in this collection <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/stories-your-life-others/id1061453391?mt=11&at=1001l7hP" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">iTunes<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang-ebook/dp/B0048EKOP0/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1479102598&sr=8-1&tag=decsci05-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Amazon<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br><br> Ted’s guest co-host appearance on <a href="http://www.decipherscifi.com/looper-ted-chiang-movie-podcast-episode-25/">decipherSciFi</a><br><br> Ted’s author page at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ted-Chiang/e/B001HCZ6OA/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1479101055&sr=8-1&tag=decsci05-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Amazon<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Nick Farmer<br><br> He’s a linguist! And a conlanger, technically.<br><br> His website <a href="http://www.nickfarmerlinguist.com/" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Nick Farmer Linguist<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br><br> His Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/nfarmerlinguist" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">@nfarmerlinguist<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Show Notes<br> Sapir-Whorf<br> AKA linguistic relativity, and why it is a very very wrong thing. A warm and fuzzy idea that turns out, after facing science, not to reflect reality well. Nick really really wants to set the record straight on this matter.<br> Spoken Alien Language<br> Considering the possibilities. Different modalities. Language need not be sound-based! ASL. Frequencies of sound.<br> Written Language<br> Heptapod B! Bending over backwards to figure out a way for alien languages to break the linearity of time.<br> Alien Writing System<br> The complexity of deciphering alien writing systems. Extradimensionality. Stephen Wolfram wrote the software to create the logograms. Human language analogies. Mapping ideas and words and concepts is REALLY complicated.<br> Goodbyes<br> <a href="https://i2.wp.com/www.decipherscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/zoidberg.jpg" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right"><span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Feedback? Please Contact Us<br> <a href="mailto:contact@decipherscifi.com" target="_blank">contact@decipherscifi.com</a><br> Amazon and iTunes links include our affiliate codes. If you wouldn’t mind helping us out a tiny bit, go ahead and use them to buy/stream something. Thanks!
