Like their ship or their bodies, their written language has no forward or backward direction. Linguists call this "nonlinear orthography", which raises the question: Is this how they think?

Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly

“- Ian Donnelly: If you immerse yourself into a foreign language, then you can actually rewire your brain.
- Louise Banks: Yeah, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's the theory that the language you speak determines how you think and...
- Ian Donnelly: Yeah, it affects how you see everything.”
Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“My Japanese is getting better. We started speaking English.”
Bill Murray - Bob Harris

“You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you'd hear them speaking the most elaborate French. Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion.”

Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior

- Dirk Pitt: I'm sorry, I don't speak English.
- Gunboat 1 Officer: You are speaking English right now.
- Dirk Pitt: No, I only know how to say, "I don't speak English" in English.

Matthew McConaughey - Dirk Pitt
Nicholas Beveney - Gunboat 1 Officer