Test Challenges for Alien Encounter

A: Language: challenge between languages

* of same group (English-French, English-Greek)
* of different language groups (English-Chinese, English-Hopi)
* of different accent (Average English-Caribbean English)
* of different subculture (Average English-Teenage jargon)
* of different age group (older/parent--younger/teenager)
* of different gender (male (chauvinist) -- female (feminist))
* of different ideology (right-wing (establishment -- left-wing (revolutionary))
* of different computer languages (Windows -- Macintosh -- Unix)

Checklist of possible alien purposes (incomplete)
curiosity aesthetics, landscapes fauna, flora
scientific exploration "because its there" sport, mountains, waves
pilgrimage inspiration missionary / charity
tourism weather photo safari analogue
for the opera (Wagner!) for the art people watching
"for a laugh" carnival / to party "to hang out"
gourmet tourism food (blood, vampire, etc) drugs, drink
gambling trophy hunting
organ replacement bodies for breeding
tax write off analogue sex-tourism analogue
infliction of pain Schadenfreude disaster tourism
"pacification" "human rights" analogue "development"
products / minerals trade military / security / strategic
therapy rest / recuperation biomedical experimentation