How'd they crack the symbols?
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BuckeyeChamp14 — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 05:35 AM)
Cracking a complex language is just like cracking a cyper / code.
Taking their symbols that relate to what word / object Louise has introduced. ie human . louise Ion walk.
You look for commonalities / correlations. The process was more complex as their language was much more integrated with an entire complex sentence in each symbolbut each symbol was able to be broken down into words.
If you have ever completed a cryptogram its slow going at first but as you go one piece helps you solve multiple future pieces of the puzzle. So the learning curve is logarithmic and you pick up speed as you go.
They didn't really do a good job spelling out the timeline but it probably took them months to get to the point that they were at.
How does a Baby learn a language? By the brain correlating spoken words with the objects / context of requests / actions that are being projected around them. First concepts "No" "good" "bad" "mom" "dad" "Their Name" "eat" "sleep" etc. It takes forever or seems like as a parent for first word then few days later seems like a few words few weeks combining wordsetc.
Or Jane teaching Tarzan "Me Jane . you Tarzan" then he was able to reverse.
They just skipped to the written word instead of verbal as were not making progress based on audio only and written symbols easier to analyze and decipher. Plus Louise probably wouldn't have the ability to make their "Whale type" audible signs so they would have to replicate via a synthesized computer generator thus would need the written translate to program anyways. -
BuckeyeChamp14 — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 07:11 AM)
Thanks.. unfortunately too many rude posts and/ or posts that have nothing to too with the movie / show.
The worse board is GoTif you go there have to weed through 95% of jackass posts to get to a real discussion.
They (IMDB) should just implement Moderators based on longtime users who could help cleanup / police the threads and get them back to what they were / should be. -
Raging-Bullwinkle — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 04:26 PM)
Thanks, I'll stay away from the GoT boards for the next six days. Last summer's Ghostbusters' boards were the worst I'd ever seen in my 11 years of hanging around here. It's nice discussing movies I like on IMDb. I will never ever understand why someone would want to go to a message board to talk about a movie they didn't like. It's a strange world. I agree with your possible solution.
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rick-559 — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 06:50 PM)
Louise knew the language. After her final trip into the ship she was immersed into their atmosphere and their way of thinking; she began to see time non-linearly. The more the story progressed the more you saw she understood this: she'd written a book using part of their language; her daughter drew pictures of things that hadn't happened yet; as they were evacuating, Louise said she knew why her husband left her, though she hadn't married him and given birth to their daughter yet. She could experience and remember things non-linearly, so she knew the language.
