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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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