CLEVELAND, Ohio -- If you're a science fiction fan, you probably saw the 2016 movie called "Arrival."
IMDB says: "A linguist is recruited by the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft land around the world." That linguist, played by Amy Adams, learns the alien language, and a weird thing happens.
She starts thinking like the aliens, which are called Heptapods. That's when the film introduces the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis that suggests the language we use -- and the way we use it -- actually rewires the brain. In other words, how we talk influences the way we think and act.