“Darmok” gets a lot of shit now for being an unrealistic portrayal of how language would develop, but it’s really an accidental parable about becoming too online and forgetting how to communicate with people who haven’t memorized 12,000+ posts

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I watched it for the first time when my dad brought me to his seminary class on Biblical translation - because the professor was arguing that sometimes translations have the exact same problem. We know the words but they‘re references to things we don’t recognize.

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Language is never 100% Tamarian, but it is a real issue. Words like quixotic come to mind - the adjectival ”Don Quixote at the windmills“

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This one hurts. Not gunna lie. This one hurts real bad. Rest in peace captain.

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Wait, you're a lesbian but you're not autistic? ...How does that work????

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