but either way you’re saying dude!

Qapla’!

Man in woods smiling, slowly begins to nod

hey he was making a ring symbol with his fingers!

Dog sips coffee, his house ablaze

Yeah, linguistics is always an absolute abomination in Trek. i’m just getting through Enterprise now and despite the idea of the development of the universal translator being done by a hot korean linguist of my dreams, you’d think this show would culminate in everything i love in the world, and yet it’s tacky, poorly thought out, and leaves so much unexplained. yeah, okay, she can communicate in a brand new language if she just believes in herself. right, that’s how it works. they just can’t handle linguistics in Trek. i wish they just overlooked it altogether and attributed it to narrative limitations.

BUT that said, the Darmok people communicate via allegory. you’re right that allegory would need something to be based on, which indicates that the proto-language for the Allegorical Language was something that did have more familiar semantics. but over time it evolved to only use the allegories as signifiers themselves, thus words like “welcome” fell into antiquity while “his arms wide” came into common usage. honestly this episode was one of the rare times when linguistic questions were handled with somewhat appropriate depth and care! there’s a lot of cool questions we could look at from the idea of an allegorical language.

also props to Enterprise for at least suggesting something cool in the Risa episode of S1: “i can’t say it any slower; it’d change the meaning”. i have never heard of an Earth language with this property. do you know if there is one? what other Trek episodes do linguistics well?

drawing your conclusions from Lemmy demographics??

This seems very rude. I see foreigners do this all the time. they take over subreddits that aren’t designed for them.

idk about you but psychologically i never chceckef my ksrma scote but still pay some attention to how an individual comment/submission is perceived. cuz i took the time to write it and it’s cool if people like/understand it and it’s “important” if they dont (at least important to my rat brains)

as a departure from this mentality, i will not edit the typos

I actually do appreciate this reminder

shut up nerd

so uhh what do we think of tuvix

wtf is this

wish gif lingered on final shot

there it is! good ole instance of the people of Mali. at least i hope so. it would be pretty colonial for westerners to use their country code…

where’s Mali?

but there’s so many other things to do! All that is theirs is yours!

um, but to be fair, i dont know why i expected more replies that werent Jamaharon

can someone explain this entire meme

because the only reason I still use Reddit is to interact with adults in my profession from around the world with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints and with good hearts but limited tolerance for spending time learning obscure tech

so anything to reduce the barrier of entry for those people is one less reason to ever use Reddit again. that’s a win in my book. if you want to stick to your ML communities y, that’s your right. but are you really going to change the world by shutting everyone out?

I’ve never met anyone who hates this episode. it’s one of my favorites