2016年10月17日 · In attempting to communicate with the aliens, Adams’s character, Louise Banks, learns that they use non-linear orthography. Their written language is circular, and doesn’t seem progress...

2016年11月12日 · What is nonlinear orthography? Orthography is a set of rules about the way a language is written, including spelling and punctuation. English is linear orthography...

2017年3月20日 · Alien's may have very different written language than humans... such as this cyclical, non-linear "logogram." Created based on art from Arrival, Paramount. “ Like their ship or their bodies, their written language has no forward or backward direction. Linguists call this ‘nonlinear orthography,’ which raises the question, ‘Is this how they think?’.

2016年11月2日 · Director Denis Villeneuve’s movie, set during a mysterious alien fleet’s visit to Earth, devotes itself to the minutiae of earthling-alien communication. Instead of a fighter pilot or witty space...

2017年3月16日 · The Heptapods’ ‘nonlinear orthography’ is our first introduction to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and the widely disputed concept of linguistic determinism.

2017年9月19日 · The nonlinear orthography of the aliens in Arrival operates kind of like icons, which is also a nonlinear orthography. A little picture of, say, a stick with fumes coming off it inside a circle with a line across it at an angle, conveys the concept of "no smoking".

2017年4月1日 · The challenge with understanding Heptapod B is its nonlinear orthography. Fortunately, Google's neural machine translation system employs an encoder/decoder system that internally represents sentences as high-dimensional vectors.

2024年5月1日 · Linguists call this non-linear orthography, which raises the question, "Is this how they think?’” The question is references the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, also referred to as linguistic relativity. In this hypothesis, language influences thought, in that the capacity of a language to describe something makes the speaker more perceptive toward ...

2023年6月9日 · Decoding an unfamiliar language involves grappling with its unique structure, grammar, and syntax. In "Arrival," the characters face the complex task of deciphering an alien language with a non-linear orthography.

2016年11月15日 · The heptapods’ written language uses non-linear orthography. Its circular structure has no forwards or backwards direction, and the heptapods can in mere seconds ink a complex “sentence.”