She points at objects to learn what they're called, and also mimes a few simple actions such as eating. She tries a few times to immitate their voices, without success, so she conducts the entire procedure by rearranging and playing back recordings of the heptapods' utterances. Fortunately, the heptapods are cooperative. Louise, armed with recording and playback equipment, begins a monolingual discovery procedure. They appear to talk out of an orifice at the top of their bodies. Called "heptapods", they look like barrels supported by seven legs, and have seven-sided radial symmetry. When approached, it activates, and shows a semicircular room somewhere else, presumably inside one of the ships. It appears to be a large semicircular mirror resting on the ground. She's taken to one of the strange objects that have been appearing in meadows all over the world.
She proposes to learn their language by interacting with them, and so joins the project. She can tell that the aliens' vocal tracts are vastly different from humans', but she can't say much more than that-especially since the colonel won't even confirm that she's listening to a recording of alien speech, let alone describe their anatomy to her. Not surprisingly, Louise can't make anything out of it without any context. The recording sounded vaguely like that of a wet dog shaking water out of its fur. "All I can offer is the recording," said Colonel Weber.Ĭolonel Weber took a tape machine out of his briefcase and pressed PLAY. I presume this has something to do with the aliens?" "You said you wanted me to listen to a recording.
They've got something they want her to hear. Louise is contacted rather suddenly at her university by an colonel and a physicist. Ships arrive in orbit above the Earth, and strange artifacts being to appear all over the world.
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