Weekly Filet, click logo to get back to home page
Make sense of what’s happening, and imagine what could be. Carefully curated recommendations on what to read, watch and listen to. Every Friday, for free.

How Will Language Change if Humans Travel the Stars?

How Will Language Change if Humans Travel the Stars?

Here’s a mind-bending issue you probably never thought of (maybe because humans travelling beyond the sun isn’t your primary concern, but hear me out). One day — the story assumes around 2300 — a group of humans might embark on a space travel to another planetary system. It would take a cool 200 years, and the message that they finally arrived would take another ten years to reach earth. And then: Earth humans might no longer understand galaxy humans — because that’s how language works.


From Weekly Filet #316, in September 2020.

💔 Some older links might be broken — that's the state of the web, sadly. If you find one, ping me.

👆 This is one of 2737 recommended links, manually curated since 2011. Discover more.