Sci-Fi Authors Influence Linguists

The team went to an actual screening of Arrival when it was in theaters with some of our listeners and friends. And then we had a big old chat about it afterwards. Why do we like superior walk so much? The idea that language influences your thought seems kind of magical. When you're in the sci-fi world, magical is good. It feels magical, but it also feels intuitive, right? I think. A lot of people. Yeah. We fight that intuition hard, don't we?