By Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne
Published December 15, 2016 3:35pm
Lingthusiasm Episode 3: Arrival of the linguists - Review of the alien linguistics movieLinguists are very excited about the movie Arrival, because it stars a linguist saving the day by figuring out how to talk with aliens. Which, if you compare it to previous linguists in film (being obnoxious to poor flower girls, for example) is a vast improvement. In this episode of the podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics, Gretchen and Lauren come to you having just watched Arrival, to tell you what it got right and wrong about life as a linguist, how linguists have been reacting, and th...