It is an important work about the nineteenth century’s Hesperian depictive linguistics and comparative linguistics combining with the research of Beijing Mandarin.
After 12 ships carrying aliens known as heptapods arrived on earth, linguistics professor Louise gets tasked with communicating with them to learn about their purpose.
And on one hand, this is great for linguistics, because language change is always driven by groups with shared interests that have a shared need to invent new words.
Although Hollywood is full of movies about robots coming to life, Emily Bender, professor of linguistics and computing at the University of Washington, thinks AI isn't that smart.