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I think the skin on my right shoulder is becoming thicker because that is where Jester my cat likes to perch. She really enjoys "parrot time" (dedicated time where I let her hang on my shoulder while I do stuff. Often includes letting her sniff whatever I'm messaging with)

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Parrot Time Magazine: Indigenous Languages Special

Parrot Time Magazine: Indigenous Languages Special

*** OUT NOW!!! ***

A very special edition of Parrot Time Magazine to mark the year of #Indigenouslanguages 2019 ❤️

▶️ http://www.parrottime.com/index.php

You can read the PDF copy online here: ▶️ https://issuu.com/abavagada/docs/parrottime_issue035

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Speaking with Aliens

We study languages so as to communicate with other people, but what about other species? What happens we we go beyond our planet? How do we communicate then? Here we look at some of the linguists and translation devices of science fiction.

Entertainment media which deals with people from other countries often has the problem of different languages. We've all seen movies like "The Hunt for Red October" which has an entire Russian submarine crew as the main object of the story. While it would make sense that the crew would all speak Russian throughout the movie, that would mean that much of the film requires subtitles. Sadly, movies with extensive subtitles are often shunned by the general population, so an excuse has to be made, or we are expected to just "suspend our belief" as the Russians all speak English to each other with proper American accents (except for the captain, of course, who is played by British actor Sean Connery).

In the science fiction genre, this can get even worse, since often completely different alien species are involved. Even if we pretend they are really speaking their own language while talking to each other, there has to be a way to show how Earthlings speaking English can understand beings from other worlds.

So writers come up with ways to at least attempt to ease this confusion without having to create new languages all the time for new races, using subtitles, and having long scenes explaining how the two races learn to communicate. In a few series, they include linguists which can then quickly learn the new language and interpret for the rest of the people. In others, they include a device that does all the work for us, and we just ignore that there is any problem in communications at all.

Of course, we still sometimes laugh when we realize that all aliens somehow speak modern English, using slang and accents which match the homeland of the series.

In this article, I look at a few of the linguists of science fiction as well as some of the devices employed to explain away any language barriers.

Read the whole article here: http://www.parrottime.com/index.php?i=8&a=82

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Parrot Time - Issue 8

Parrot Time Issue 8 is now available! You can read the web version, flip through the PDF version online, or download a copy for yourself! We hope you enjoy it and share it with your friends!

http://www.parrottime.com