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How ____________________ Is the Way Amy Adams' ____________________ Hacks the Alien ____________________ In ____________________ ? We Asked a ____________________ . Denis ____________________ ____________________ makes being a ____________________ look pretty cool ? its ____________________ Louise ( Amy Adams ) gets up close and personal with ____________________ and ____________________ to save the ____________________ world with her ____________________ skills ( and lives in a ____________________ , glass - walled ____________________ palace all by ____________________ ) . But how realistic were her ____________________ ? We talked to Betty Birner , a ____________________ of linguistics and ____________________ science at Northern Illinois ____________________ , to find ____________________ what she ____________________ of the movie's ____________________ of language , its linguist ____________________ , and how we might someday learn to ____________________ with aliens in ____________________ life . What was it like to watch Arrival as an ____________________ linguist ? I loved the movie . It was a ____________________ of fun to see a movie that's ____________________ all about the Sapir - Whorf ____________________ . On the other hand , they took the ____________________ way beyond anything that is ____________________ . In the movie they kind of ____________________ over the ____________________ , explaining it as the idea that the ____________________ you speak can ____________________ the way you ____________________ . Is that ____________________ ? There are two ways of thinking about the ____________________ - Whorf ____________________ , and scholars have ____________________ over which of these two ____________________ and / or Whorf actually ____________________ . The weaker version is linguistic ____________________ , which is the ____________________ that there's a ____________________ between language and ____________________ . ? Different language communities ____________________ reality differently . ? The ____________________ view is called ____________________ determinism , and that's the view that language actually ____________________ the way you see ____________________ , the way you ____________________ it . That's a much ____________________ claim . At one point in the ____________________ , the ____________________ Ian [ Jeremy Renner ] says , ? The Sapir - Whorf ____________________ says that if you ____________________ yourself in another ____________________ , you can ____________________ your brain . ? And that ____________________ me laugh out loud , ____________________ Whorf never said ____________________ about rewiring your ____________________ . But ____________________ this wasn't the ____________________ speaking , it's fine that another ____________________ is ____________________ the Sapir - Whorf .