6 Film and TV Languages You Can Actually Speak

6. Futurama: Alienese

Written in as a running joke throughout the series and as a way of adding depth to the 31st Century, the aptly titled 'Alienese' is that weird symbolic language you see scribbled about Futurama as graffiti, devised by one of the show's creators David X. Cohen.

Wonder how long it took them to come up with a name for it? Simply swapping out normal English letters for a squiggly counterpart, it took fans all of half an hour to figure out the code from Futurama's premiere, resulting in the team creating Alienese II.

Packing it full of maths equations rather than good old fashioned counting on your fingers, it's much more work to get the in-jokes now. Rewarding? Probably not. It just sounds like cheating, really.

In any case, if you want to send some letters in the intergalactic equivalent of alphabetti spaghetti, here's the language for you.