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Gretchen: There’s this one part of Arrival, which I think is the biggest quibble that linguists have with the story, where the physicist character says to the linguist, “You think of language like a mathematician.” And she’s just like “Yeah.”
Lauren: Whereas if she was a real linguist she’d be like, “Um, yeah, obviously.”
Gretchen: I mean, I’m glad they made the point somehow, but this is literally what linguistics is.
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Excerpt from Episode 3 of Lingthusiasm: Arrival of the linguists - Review of the alien linguistics film. Listen to the full episode, read the transcript, or check out the show notes for more linguistics thoughts about the movie.
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