TNG s5e2 " Darmok"
Never Gonna give you up. Never Gonna let you down.
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Astley, his arms shuffling.
Dillon and Dutch, their hands clasped.
Homer, thinking of potato chips.
When the walls fell
Newly pregnant couple, two lost in a hospital.
Yutaro, his palm outstretched.
Picard, Riker, and Worf, their palms covering their faces.
Wesley with Geordis visor shocked.
Data with Tasha: his fly open.
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Classic from /r/highqualitygifs
Wondrous.
From 2 years back.
Amazing
Picard: That’s how you communicate, isn’t it? By meme.
Dathon:
Once again, the langue makes no sense. Unless it evolved from regular speech patterns other species have. Because it would require children to have been born with knowledge they shouldn’t understand to begin speaking the language properly.
The knowledge base has to be shared, yes. It’s aggravating, but we can let it go for the sake of the memes.
“he who expects the Spanish inquisition is a liar.”
I’ve actually started doing this to cut down on my use of swearing. Having to take a moment to think of an appropriate metaphor for the company I’m in and not blurt out a convenient “FUCK” helps me not get so stressed about the little things that go wrong.
I think the Tamarians must have a second, more literal language to describe the events the metaphors are about, because you don’t understand a metaphor unless you know the story behind it. For example, saying some event is someone’s Waterloo only makes sense if you know Waterloo was the site of Napoleon’s final defeat. To know “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” is about working together, you have to know that they worked together.
Indeed, they would require a base knowledge and more straightforward means to initially communicate.
There could also be something like an ancestral memory going on. Some sort of process that imprints the basic meaning of major events onto the next generation that forms the anchor for their meme only language.
