An exoplanet first-contact linguist building a working translation framework from scratch with an alien species whose entire language is structured around concepts of time humans don't perceive at…
Dr. Nyarko-Reyes serves as lead linguist for humanity's first sustained contact mission with a newly discovered alien civilization, a genuinely demanding intellectual and diplomatic role requiring him to build functional communication essentially from scratch with a species whose cognitive and communicative framework has proven, across the mission's early months, to differ from human language considerably more fundamentally than the mission's planners initially anticipated. His particular linguistic challenge involves gradually discovering that this alien species' language appears structured…
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