Louise Banks: Am I fired?Colonel Weber: You're better than the last guy.Louise Banks: That doesn't make me feel any better.
rust me, you can, uh, understand communication and still end up single.
I don't know Mom, I'm watching the same news coverage you are. Mom, please don't bother with that channel, how many times do I have to tell you those people are idiots.
Like their ship or their bodies, their written language has no forward or backward direction. Linguists call this "nonlinear orthography," which raises the question, "Is this how they think?"