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the film "the arrival" was p cool to see in 1996 as a lad lots of weird poo poo and backwards walking aliens 
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pap schmear posted:speculating: when humans learn the aliens' language, the language shapes the brain so the humans can experience non-linear time (cf. Sapir-Whorf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity). If so, what amazing ability would the aliens gain in return from learning the human language? The power of ....? Algebra?
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pap schmear posted:speculating: when humans learn the aliens' language, the language shapes the brain so the humans can experience non-linear time (cf. Sapir-Whorf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity). If so, what amazing ability would the aliens gain in return from learning the human language? The power of ....? Knowing the English language grants you the ability to have really awful opinions and the inability to shut the gently caress up about them. 
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Dec 4, 2016 07:49
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Jenner posted:Knowing the English language grants you the ability to have really awful opinions and the inability to shut the gently caress up about them. I fully expect that once aliens get to know our languages they will say something along the lines of "this is you're dominant language?"
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Dec 4, 2016 15:57
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banned from Starbucks posted:This movie was dumb as hell. You have the power to see the future and all you can do with that is not shut up about your dead kid. Sorry about your incorrect opinions dude. Mywhatacleanturtle posted:I loved Arrival, but I have some questions about it. Yes.
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Dec 4, 2016 23:14
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ScrubLeague posted:I liked both Arrival and Interstellar quite a bit even if their cold hard science fiction exteriors were betrayed by the Actually It's About Feelings bits. I liked Arrival better in that respect. Interstellar's course-change felt abrupt and unearned, while in Arrival the two complimented each other. Arrival never pretended to *not* be a Feelings-based sci-fi movie.
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Dec 7, 2016 00:52
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Mywhatacleanturtle posted:If the Heptapods have non-linear memories, wouldn't they already know the renegade soldiers would plant bomb on their ship? Wouldn't Abbott know he was going to die? Why didn't they stop it? The way I explained it to my mom, which may make sense (I don't know you as well as I know her), was to use the description of their language as an example. When you're "writing a sentence starting from both ends" it isn't about writing one word in response to the previous one, that's simply where the word needs to go. The "circle" of their encounter with Earth had to include Abbot's death, just as the circle of Hannah's life had to include her death to be complete.
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Dec 7, 2016 00:59
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Bruceski posted:The way I explained it to my mom, which may make sense (I don't know you as well as I know her), was to use the description of their language as an example. When you're "writing a sentence starting from both ends" it isn't about writing one word in response to the previous one, that's simply where the word needs to go. The "circle" of their encounter with Earth had to include Abbot's death, just as the circle of Hannah's life had to include her death to be complete. Nice.
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Dec 7, 2016 01:02
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Sir Kodiak posted:Nobody asked for a less visually impressive Interstellar, Villeneuve. Better cast, though. ahahahahahahahahhahaahahaha hahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Dec 7, 2016 01:02
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Did I make a pun somewhere?
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Dec 7, 2016 01:17
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I just thought it was a cool way to put it.
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