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A comment on From Esperanto to ET: Artificial Languages in the Internet Era (2004).

Re:From Esperanto to ET: Artificial Languages in the Interne... by kiba on Monday December 26, 2016 @02:41PM (#13259471)
If we're going to communicate to aliens, the idea would be to use the periodic table as a basis?

Or physical constants?

Or math?

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Re:From Esperanto to ET: Artificial Languages in the Interne... by cooper12 on Monday December 26, 2016 @06:05PM (#13260253)
NASA has you covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record#Playback
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Re:From Esperanto to ET: Artificial Languages in the Interne... by throwaway7645 on Monday December 26, 2016 @03:51PM (#13259717)
Those all still use language for everything outside the most basic form. Communication would be interesting to say the least I would think.
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Re:From Esperanto to ET: Artificial Languages in the Interne... by esuzeb on Monday December 26, 2016 @06:23PM (#13260305)
The movie Arrival (2016) covers this topic nicely. Apart from that it's also an excellent movie all overall.
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