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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:   
   > anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
      
   >> You couldn?t possibly develop a language like that naturally.  You'd have   
   >> to start with a real language and then change it just to be annoying.   
   >   
   >I'm not so sure about "couldn't possibly." They would need to learn the   
   >stories somehow, but (according to the fan wiki) the official position   
   >is that they *mostly* speak in metaphor. Children presumably learn some   
   >basics in plainer language, which really should have been tried with   
   >Picard, but a highly metaphorical species might not have thought of it.   
      
   It's been discussed before (and better), but you cannot have a language   
   that is _entirely_ memes.   
      
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