| Greylegion | 12 Apr 2014 7:26 a.m. PST |
I had an interesting experience this morning. Earlier this week our cable box went out. So we called the provider to have them come out and see what the problem might be, or replace the box. The tech sent a text and it simply read "omw". I don't recall ever seeing this before, so I don't think I already knew what this meant. Then I thought that probably almost all languages, all over the world, are currently evolving. They may be changing faster than they ever have before. I then thought of alien contact and how the language they would speak and communicate with, will probably be a shell of what it began as. Our younger generation is already doing it, we are following and trying to keep up. Will aliens be speaking in anagrams? Will we, as well? I love this site.
omniglot.com |
 Legion 4   | 12 Apr 2014 7:45 a.m. PST |
I do have a working knowledge of Klingon … but I don't think that will help.  The Science and Discovery Channels had shows that talked about this. They said, that chating with aliens the universal language of mathmatics would be a most likely choice. Of course the aliens would have to be intelligent. We land on planet and they are just primative and agressive, well first contact might be thru the muzzle of a weapon … |
| Goonfighter | 12 Apr 2014 7:49 a.m. PST |
What if they land on a planet that they see as primitive and aggressive? We tick at least one of those boxes……. |
| Legion 4 | 12 Apr 2014 8:21 a.m. PST |
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| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 12 Apr 2014 8:39 a.m. PST |
I'm not sure aliens will even communicate in a manner we recognize. Some sci-fi authors have made a pretty neat idea about rapid changes in skin color, but visible light is such a small portion of the EM spectrum. Imagine trying to communicate with something that emits radio waves from its skin, and would it be am or fm? |
 FingerandToeGlenn  | 12 Apr 2014 9:23 a.m. PST |
For speech, even small changes in the structure of the mouth, nasal passages, and voice box could render mutual speech not only unintelligible but un-reproducible by either party until somebody hinked up a digitizer. If they use any other form of communication, we might read of hilarious and tragic encounters in later histories. Tunable gaseous emission sounds, for example. |
| Space Monkey | 12 Apr 2014 12:16 p.m. PST |
Lots of weird communications examples amongst animals here on earth… plants, fish, insects. |
| Gaz0045 | 12 Apr 2014 2:03 p.m. PST |
100110 10 01? I'll be better off with Klingon or maybe Ferenghi and the RoA…….. |
| Zephyr1 | 12 Apr 2014 2:24 p.m. PST |
There are probably already common word-phrases among alien civilizations that they all know, like NIMBY, KIO, GOML, KIIYP, and the ever popular MYOB…. ;-) |
| Zargon | 12 Apr 2014 3:15 p.m. PST |
More like "AkAk ak? Akakak! I'm sure we'll be seeing them soon and it will be them bearing disintegrator ray guns Legion. Make sure you have 'Slim Whitman's Indian Love Song' ready to repel Martian invaders, your guns will be useless against them. 8-D |
| Gokiburi | 13 Apr 2014 11:16 a.m. PST |
I took some T'lothi in high school: *Smells like damp soil*
*Shifts gradually to an old copper scent*
*Suddenly changes to the odor of freshly baked bread* I think I either told you to have a nice day, or I offered my corpse to host your larva, I'm a little rusty. |
shows how his higher-level Synths turned out.
