Posted: Mar 09, 2010 4:53 pm
crank wrote:
do you think it is possible to decipher/translate an alien language without help? By help I mean active participation of speakers, or a Rosetta Stone, or known related language (I think all lost languages have been deciphered like this)?
No, it isn't possible to decipher or translate an alien language without some help. If you are presented with a recording of an unknown foreign language you won't be able to tell when one word ends and another starts, for example.