From: Huge@nowhere.much.invalid   
      
   On 2017-09-06, RS Wood  wrote:   
   > On 6 Sep 2017 18:42:10 GMT   
   > Huge  wrote:   
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   >> On 2017-09-06, RS Wood  wrote:   
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   >> > Has anyone seen "Arrival"?  That was a great film with a compelling plot.   
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   >> Brilliant movie. Well acted, decent plot, based on a scientific idea (the   
   >> Sapir–Whorf hypothesis), proper aliens. Loved it.   
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   > Thanks for a name for the hypothesis - did not know the name of it.   
      
   It's mentioned in the film, but if you don't already know what it is, you   
   may well miss it.   
      
   > That prompted me to look up the Wikipedia page for the film [1] and the   
   > theory of linguistic relativity [2].  Interesting to read the circular   
   > language of the film's heptapods was invented by the scriptwriter, with   
   > some help from linguists.   
      
   There seems to be a whole industry of inventing languages for movies   
   these days, since the fans will no longer put up with random gibberish.   
      
      
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