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Arrival - Created by Ori Toor

a furry linguist, learning the palatal nasal: yknow, like, [ɲɑ]

languages will make rules and then be like. actually nah

You know I’ve had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember.

Arrival (2016) Dir. Denis Villeneuve

We’re so bounded by time, by its order. But now I am not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. Amy Adams as Louise Banks in Arrival (2016)

ARRIVAL (2016) DIR DENIS VILLENEUVE

“Language is the foundation of civilization. It is the glue that holds a people together. It is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.”

Still, I tried to ponder questions formulated in terms more familiar to me: what kind of worldview did the heptapods have, that they would consider Fermat’s principle the simplest explanation of light refraction? What kind of perception made a minimum or maximum readily apparent to them?

ARRIVAL (2016) dir. Denis VILLENEUVE based on Story of Your Life (1999) by Ted CHIANG

Transliteração

Transliteração é o processo de mapeamento de um sistema de escrita em outro. No caso da língua portuguesa, o processo de transliteração se dá quando se incluem palavras de idiomas escritos em outros alfabetos em textos em português, o qual utiliza uma versão do alfabeto latino com 26 letras e diacríticos. 

Exemplo:

A transliteração também pode ser usado como um meio de auxiliar a aprender a pronúncia correta de palavras na língua alvo, principalmente em alfabetos não latinos: