Sentence examples for any alien language from inspiring English sources

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.

There's nothing as difficult as trying to be angry in an alien language.

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.

She's dancing with Matt Cutler, who is a bit bemused about the fact that he is speaking an alien language as far as his partner is concerned.

Its story, narrated in an alien language, is at heart an ecological parable, with the forest left withered and lifeless by unnatural forces.

If snowboarding lingo sounded like an alien language, the snow-covered kiddie hill that sprawled below me looked like another planet.

You interact with terminals in abandoned buildings by knowing enough words in an alien language to determine which button to press.

He said that the fiscal battles with Obama over taxes and spending had left his side sounding like budget scolds, speaking an alien language of Washington jargon ("austerity," "sequester," "debt ceiling").

"We wanted to translate documents that had never been seen before," he says.Provided there is some common frame reference in the subject matter, there is no reason why translating an alien language should not eventually be possible, says Dr Waibel.