So I haven't even seen the movie yet but the clicking and popping weird sounding language featured in the trailer really puzzled me. Until I had a sudden realization, that the reason why they speak that way is because human language is inherently limiting in its efficiency. It takes way too long to convey meaningful information and is cumbersome. The alien language is more close to spoken code rather than a complete phonetic language. Basically they are sending data to each other in short bursts rather than speaking in words and paragraphs. I am not sure if this sub is the correct place to post but I hope that this makes sense. submitted by /u/stupidclanker [link] [comments]