Exolangs are constructed languages that imagine how the languages of extraterrestrial beings might look and sound—and linguists have come up with some pretty mind-bending options. Some exolangs adhere ...

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 ...

Arrival, Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s latest film, isn’t your typical sci-fi epic – nor is its protagonist. The unlikely star of the critically acclaimed film is a linguist named Louise Banks, ...

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The best thing about my job is that I get to write about games like "No Man's Sky." The worst part is that I have to do that instead of playing it. I finally got the chance to sit down with the game ...

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 ...

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 ...