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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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 Trustworthy words are not pretty; 
 Pretty words are not trustworthy. 
  
 -Lao-Tzu spoke those pretty words. 
  
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