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This video says, among other things, that the communication of the race
in "Darmok" is like communicating with memes. He makes a pretty good
case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i0GNbQYPB0

I've always wondered how those people learned the stories in order to reference them. How can a story be told entirely in memes taken from
other stories? Where's the entry point? How do they even learn basic
word meanings if nobody ever says anything like "Please pass the
pepper"?

Perhaps there's a children's language where they speak more plainly, but
it's considered disrespectful to use it with an adult. You'd really
think Dathon would have at least tried it, though, given all the trouble
they were having.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always
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Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> writes:

This video says, among other things, that the communication of the race
in "Darmok" is like communicating with memes. He makes a pretty good
case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i0GNbQYPB0

I've always wondered how those people learned the stories in order to reference them. How can a story be told entirely in memes taken from
other stories? Where's the entry point? How do they even learn basic
word meanings if nobody ever says anything like "Please pass the
pepper"?

Perhaps there's a children's language where they speak more plainly, but it's considered disrespectful to use it with an adult. You'd really
think Dathon would have at least tried it, though, given all the trouble they were having.

I think it was a budget saving episode and the writers didn't put much
thought into it.

D
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