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Shaka, when the walls fell.

• krapp 8y ago
  Don't get me started on Darmok. I don't understand why that episode is so praised, it makes no sense. How... HOW do you have a technological, much less warp capable, civilization if you only speak in metaphor and allegory? How do engineers get anything done? Do they write white papers in metaphors? Do the captains of their ships issue orders in metaphors? Languages don't work like that. They literally can't work like that. It literally makes me... mildly annoyed.
  • labster 8y ago
    The media, when Kanye tweeted.
    • ianai 8y ago
      It’s also not like we’re told the federation has had complete access to everything about the society. There could be more traditional stories shared with their children as a basis for the language, but unshared with the federation. All language lives within a culture, and words only convey meaning through a mutually shared understanding. They’ve made allegories first class parts of language, the equivalent to our individual words.