Linguist AND cartographer AND plumber (and……whatever the technical term for the boiler guy is. And judging by how he handles that flying fish thing, he’s a pilot, too)
*Looking at James Spader* there is a perfectly good movie with a linguist main character right there
Aaaand now it’s over.
My brain is like 90% linguist and I noped out of the whole idea of “Arrival” upon finding out that it subscribed to a not just Strong but supernaturally overpowered version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
