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E.T. Language & Communication Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Quote #1

ELLIOTT: Do you talk? You know, talk? Me, boy. Elliott.

Us, Shmoop. You, Shmooper. Why is it that whenever we want to talk to somebody who doesn't speak our language, we revert to caveman-speak?

Language & Communication

Quote #2

GERTIE: Mommy, he can talk!

MOM: Of course he can talk. I'll be right back in ten minutes. Stay there.

Here we have an example of communication… and miscommunication. While Gertie's understandably stoked about E.T.'s new vocabulary, Mom thinks she's referring to somebody else.

Language & Communication

Quote #3

[E.T. presses buttons on the phone.]

GERTIE: You wanna call somebody?

Before E.T.'s language skills really pick up, he communicates with the kids non-verbally, and they know exactly what he means. Even Gertie.

Language & Communication
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