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Mad_Moodin t1_j9vzz7c wrote

Reply to comment by Writteninsanity in [WP] The aliens, it seems, do not consider us a sentient species because we are unable to 'keeneetaa'. We still haven't figured out what that means. by limbodog

Sure shit can do.

I want you to put screw somewhere. I point at the screwdriver. I point at where i want the hole to be. I make a motion of where to drill and you set out to do it.

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Writteninsanity t1_j9w5sov wrote

I’m gonna throw out that it might be underestimating planes here.

Absolutely granted you can communicate a lot with pointing and gestures, but it kinda falls apart at advanced concepts like “there is not a screw right here but here is how you could make one “

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Mad_Moodin t1_j9xcls5 wrote

It is slower than our learned language. But the aliens also used a learned language. It would take a long fucking time but could work.

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henryuuk t1_j9xu1gu wrote

Many of those gestures are still "learned" at some point in life tho

The aliens seemingly have some sort of inherent understanding of theirs from birth

Like, if you isolated one from its species from birth, it would still somehow understand the others after growing up in isolation.

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