From: Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,rec.arts.startrek.fandom,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.sf.tv,can.arts.sf
Subject: Re: AI/LLM reviews of STNG - Darmok
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:31:04 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:
> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>> You couldn?t possibly develop a language like that naturally. You'd have
>> to start with a real language and then change it just to be annoying.
>
>I'm not so sure about "couldn't possibly." They would need to learn the
>stories somehow, but (according to the fan wiki) the official position
>is that they *mostly* speak in metaphor. Children presumably learn some
>basics in plainer language, which really should have been tried with
>Picard, but a highly metaphorical species might not have thought of it.
It's been discussed before (and better), but you cannot have a language
that is _entirely_ memes.