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The fictional extraterrestrials of Star Trek or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors.
The WSJ reports that, according to an MIT survey, Americans are twice as likely to back a tax increase going toward the search for extraterrestrials than one for gene-cloning research.
The language of extraterrestrials merits only passing mention in Lunatic Lovers of Language, which deals with the development of artificial languages and with the search for language universals, characteristics that many (or all) languages share and that lend credence to the notion that there was only one original language from which the present stock has liverged.
No one giggled at her when she communed with apes in Gorillas in the Mist , and no one will giggle at her in this epic oddity, even when she's writhing around in a mucousy pit of alien viscera, communing with the queen and its unborn fetus--an image so strange that it goes beyond the Jungian vampiric phalluses and womblike hatchways of earlier Alien films into what is possibly the collective unconscious of extraterrestrials.
Many writers avoid the language problem by introducing mental telepathy as the means of communication, which is just as well: human speech employs the available organs situated between the lungs and the face, and there is no reason to assume that fish-faced or vegetablelike or otherwise constituted extraterrestrials would be endowed with like equipment (any more than are many nonhuman creatures on earth), and they would thus be unlikely to use languages constructed for humans.
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