Quote from: skhellter on Jan 25, 2017, 06:29:01 PM
Quote from: RakaiThwei on Jan 25, 2017, 06:20:47 PM
Not sure I like the idea of the kid learning Predator language. I mean isn't it usually consisting with grunts and clicks anyway?
Having a child prodigy/autistic kid understand some of the patterns/words is fine, imo.
Not really realistic, mind you.. as people with autism often struggle with learning other languages, etc.
but it's a predator film and realism isnt really the name of the game so whatever.
I wouldn't say all autistic people struggle with learning languages.
Daniel Trammel is autistic and he was able to learn an entire language in a week, I think he learned Icelandic if I remember correctly. And when he spoke to a native speaker after the week passed, they complimented him on how well he spoke.
Maybe the kid could be a Savant. It's where people with a difficulty in some areas experience a massive boost in other areas due to the brain administering focus over to those skills.
So in this kid's case, he may have trouble acting "normal" or understanding facial expressions or whatever it is he'd have trouble with, and his brain would re-organise by focusing in the language department hence his ability to learn new ones so well.
And like others have said, he'll probably learn the written words somehow rather than actually speak to a Predator.