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   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <762320817.779042561.502977.anim8rfsk-   
   cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this   
   message:   
   > They were as annoying as the pig nose moron aliens.   
      
   I can't hate the pig-nosed morons when one was so hilarious on Lower   
   Decks. They were kind of annoying in the original, though.   
      
      
   > 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.   
      
   Such a high and persistent level of metaphorical abstraction would be   
   fascinating. Too bad the TNG-era Enterprise didn't seem to have a   
   communications officer.   
      
   --   
   Trustworthy words are not pretty;   
   Pretty words are not trustworthy.   
      
   -Lao-Tzu spoke those pretty words.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)