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| ENIGMA |
Amy: A movie about cracking
the code.
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Benedict: The Imitation Game.
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Amy: I meant Arrival.
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Benedict: Both movies where
the action is centered on linguistics.
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Amy: Exciting?
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| Heptapod logogram |
Benedict: Mmm. Cerebrally.
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Amy: And people-driven plots.
Alan Turing and Louise Banks.
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Benedict: Both began as
military problems and were solved by linguists.
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Amy: Or mathematicians
turned linguists. Literacy has a numeracy base?
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Voice-over
How does a linguistic sleuth
deconstruct an unknown language into its elements? By identifying nouns, verbs,
adjectives, modifiers, particles to build a grammar then ascribing meanings to
the words. Who knew that linguistics could be so exciting.
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