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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   hr.jakarta@dafam-vasaka.com wrote:   
   > In article , weberm@polaris.net wrote:   
      
   >> Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How   
   >> realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?   
   >>   
   >> https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5   
   >   
   >A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg   
   >compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put   
   >their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.   
      
   That's my biggest complaint, plus the claim that real linguists were unable   
   to figure it out for many years  but picard did it within 24 hours.   
      
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