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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)