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Enjoyed the movie very much, but have issues with how Heptapod communication is portrayed. For one thing, they have two modes of language, purely verbal and pur
by wrp 3y ago
Enjoyed the movie very much, but have issues with how Heptapod communication is portrayed. For one thing, they have two modes of language, purely verbal and purely written. Well, what do they do if they want to write down someone's speech verbatim, or tell someone verbally exactly what is written?
- mpalmer 3y agoI think it one point in the movie they explicitly say that there is no correlation between what an alien says and what they write. They further say that because it's not a transcription of speech, the writing is not "bound by time". Utterances have a start and an end, heptapod writing ipso facto does not. It's possible too that the alien utterances are purely gestural, and don't involve language in the same sense as the logograms.