From: The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com>
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, 9 Sep 2025 05:30:46 -0700
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Verily, in article <109p3fg$uie2$6@dont-email.me>, did
weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:
>
> 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.
That's probably why the "mostly" part is in there.
--
Trustworthy words are not pretty;
Pretty words are not trustworthy.
-Lao-Tzu spoke those pretty words.