TNG s5e2 " Darmok"

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Balls. Well, I guess we’ll have to assume they understand “and” and “at” at the very least. In that case, new idioms of (person) at (place) could be created, but “Shaka, when the walls fell” would be an idiom from the language spoken beforehand.

    And this is just my tortured excuse, but the premise falls apart otherwise.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Yeah, a fun premise but pretty damn near impossible to pull off while preserving the ability for the language to evolve to accommodate new stuff.