Entertainment industry conlangs have come a long way since Klingon was first uttered during Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, having been devised by the actor James Doohan (Scotty) purely to sound "alien".
What Glazer wanted, he realised, was to make a film representing, as purely as possible, an alien view of our world.
When Hawkins justified her solidarity with Muslims by noting that as a Christian she worships the same God as Muslims, she committed the unpardonable sin of removing the enemy from the category of "alien" and "purely evil" other.
The judges, as men of law, understand such complex, alien legal issues, purely psychological matters no better than the criminal.
Adrift in America on a sea of cocaine psychosis, his contribution to director Nicolas Roeg's film was an almost purely aesthetic one – he looked like an alien so he played an alien.
However, they conceded that it was purely speculative, and several other scientists have cautioned against linking these bursts to possible alien intelligence. .
The Los Angeles Times said the trailer delivered "some spirited alien action, with exploding spaceships and muscled bad guys, not to mention a few purely comedic moments," while spotlighting "a number of the offbeat characters".
Other attempts to synthesize complex human behavior into alien-intelligible symbols have fizzled when they tried to relay much more than purely scientific and mathematical information.
In 24 hours she lost eight to 10 purely Russian provinces, 25 million ethnic Russians who have ended up in this very way as "undesirable aliens".
But how much crossover is there really between people who would go to see a film purely because they admire the lead character's penis and people who would go to see a film like Alien?
