c/wrong_takeaway · by TehBamski@lemmy.world · 2y

Be nice to linguistics, or else they might purposefully fuck up their alien translations so that an alien invasion occurs, in spite of those that were mean to them.

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“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

—Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (1989-11-08)

Mesophar@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Reading this title, I might risk an alien invasion.

theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y

Titlegore like this is why Ye Wenjie did nothing wrong

CrayonRosary@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The word your looking for is "linguist", a person who studies language. Linguistics is the study of language.

joostjakob@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Also "to spite", not "in spite of"

spittingimage@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Once more, in english?

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Don't piss off the interpretor cause they might intentionally mistranslate something so that it causes a war.

ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y

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nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y

To spite those that were mean to them maybe?

muzzle@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Be nice to the astrophysicist too, do you remember what happens with Ye Wenjie?