Decipher Scifi : The Show About How And Why

Nick Farmer He’s a linguist! And a conlanger, technically. His website: Nick Farmer Linguist His Twitter: @nfarmerlinguist Sapir-Whorf AKA linguistic relativity, and why it is a very very wrong thing. A warm and fuzzy idea that turns out, after facing science, not to reflect reality well. Nick really really wants to set the record straight on this matter. Spoken Alien Language Considering the possibilities. Different modalities. Language need not be sound-based! ASL. Frequencies of sound. Written Language Heptapod B! Bending over backwards to figure out a way for alien languages to break the linearity of time. Alien Writing System The complexity of deciphering alien writing systems. Extradimensionality. Stephen Wolfram wrote the software to create the logograms. Human language analogies. Mapping ideas and words and concepts is REALLY complicated. Everything by Ted Chiang: Amazon Support the show!