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. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 months ago

“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 points 5 months ago

Reading this title, I might risk an alien invasion.

[-] theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Titlegore like this is why Ye Wenjie did nothing wrong

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

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

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Once more, in english?

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

To spite those that were mean to them maybe?

[-] muzzle@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

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