{"id":90142,"date":"2019-04-30T15:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T22:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-science-behind-the-twisting-alien-linguistics-of-arrival"},"modified":"2019-04-30T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T22:43:15","slug":"the-science-behind-the-twisting-alien-linguistics-of-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-science-behind-the-twisting-alien-linguistics-of-arrival","title":{"rendered":"The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-science-behind-the-twisting-alien-linguistics-of-arrival3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Rowan Hooper<\/p>\n<p>Science fiction thrillers usually send in gun-toting heroes like Will Smith or Tom Cruise to kick invading alien butt. <em>Arrival<\/em> is completely, wonderfully different: it sends in a linguist, played by Amy Adams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLanguage,\u201d one character says, \u201cis the first weapon drawn in a conflict.\u201d The big question to ask the aliens: what is their purpose on Earth?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2109339-the-science-behind-the-twisting-alien-linguistics-of-arrival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rowan Hooper Science fiction thrillers usually send in gun-toting heroes like Will Smith or Tom Cruise to kick invading alien butt. Arrival is completely, wonderfully different: it sends in a linguist, played by Amy Adams. \u201cLanguage,\u201d one character says, \u201cis the first weapon drawn in a conflict.\u201d The big question to ask the aliens: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}