A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016)

Re:A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) by awinter-py on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:44PM (#13969953)

fascinating. what city?

It sounds like you're not a native -- in your observation, is the ability to navigate easily in the 'rotated downtown' area correlated with having grown up nearby?

That would make a cool study.

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Re:A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) by eric_the_read on Monday March 27, 2017 @02:43PM (#13970495)

Denver does this; not sure if that's the OP's city, but you can see the relevant bit here: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7565211,-104.99244,14z

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Re:A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) by thefalcon on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:34PM (#13979314)

I'm in the Central Valley (CA), and I notice that this is a pattern that seems to be repeated up and down the 99 (Downtown parallels the freeway while the rest of the city exists on a normal grid).

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Re:A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) by jhbadger on Monday March 27, 2017 @02:51PM (#13970553)

Montreal works this way -- the street grid is aligned to the St. Lawrence rather than to compass directions

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