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Alien Written Language


Is the alien written language actually any human alphabet?

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Evidently the moon people write in Japanese or other Asian language that Hideko knows.

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... except that it wasn't Japanese or Chinese, which the others seemed to think it was and which a Japanese wouldn't be able to read unless she happened also to speak Chinese. The characters looked sort of like Amharic, the language used in Ethiopia, but I suspect they were just made up. :-)

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In an already poor movie, this was the worst plot hole. The characters were nothing at all like Japanese; they appeared to be completely made up squiggles. If they wanted to imply that a Japanese speaker could read them, then why not just use Japanese??

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Some of the symbols looked a little more like Korean than Japanese, but I'm sure it was just made up for the movie.

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