Eureka!

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Anyone a fan of the SciFi show Eureka? It ROCKS, I'd love to live there.... I wonder what things they could do for language and language translation?!

~Eilidh

I was a fan, but Season 3 looks like they're running out of ideas.

I'm a fan of the show, and a linguist/translator by profession. So I'm glad the plots have stayed away from my area of expertise, in which I can get very testy and picky.

They've already done a lot with language/translation indirectly. The house SARAH speaks quite well, as did Nathan Stark's android son, both remarkable accomplishments in the realm of natural language processing (and impossible in the real world so far). In the s3 episode involving the mummy, we see Zane working on the "translation" of the hieroglyphs (most of which were not real glyphs) using a computer program for the purpose.

Separately, I'd happily live there too, perhaps as a language/AI researcher.

You have to love the scene towards the end of the gravity ep, which i think is the s3 premier, where the two sheriffs sort of waddle off together. Also when they introduced andy - he just slaps the box shut.

Eureka is fun. I haven't seen season 3 yet.

I like SARAH, I want one!
Also, I miss things like the glyphs, I'd love to learn though. I'm working on a language for a book I'm writing... it's FUN! Languages are one of my "things"
~Eilidh