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   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <109p3fg$uie2$6@dont-email.me>, did   
   weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   That's probably why the "mostly" part is in there.   
      
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   Pretty words are not trustworthy.   
      
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