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The phrase "an alien language" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a language that is foreign or unfamiliar, often in the context of science fiction or discussions about extraterrestrial communication.
Example: "When I first heard the alien language, it sounded like a series of strange clicks and whistles."
Alternatives: "a foreign language" or "a strange language"
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There's nothing as difficult as trying to be angry in an alien language.
Do you find that equations in physics are like an alien language?
Brian Aldiss "Confluence" -- consisting entirely of a lexicon of words in an alien language, tentatively translated into English.
Volunteers asked to rate made-up words from an "alien" language even continued to show a preference for those typed predominantly with the right hand.
But it was a small victory for him, because it let him test his translation software on the closest thing he could get to an alien language.
When customers entered a store and connected to Wi-Fi, a decoder was enabled inside the comic app to read an alien language.
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the satirical science fiction novel by Douglas Adams, reluctant space traveller Arthur Dent was able to understand any alien language by inserting a Babel Fish into his ear.
Scored for 10 instruments, including piccolo, trumpet, percussion and strings, it sounded at times like, say, a Martian dance party, which had Maghan Stewart, a soprano, and Julie Anne Miller, a mezzo, singing in a melodic alien language.
It doesn't matter how long it is, or how closely it resembles an indecipherable alien language; someone who is not you will eventually obtain it, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Mr. Kirby, the computer modeler, devised an experiment in which subjects were shown objects on a screen along with words describing the objects in what was represented as an invented alien language.
He further justified this pessimism by means of a thought experiment concerning "radical translation": a linguist is faced with the task of translating a completely alien language without relying on collateral information from bilinguals or other informants.
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