[maro]

Shows you there’s no accounting for tastes. I found Darmok extremely frustrating, since it is based on an idea of language that makes no sense. If the aliens were capable of using METAPHORS, why could they not also use or understand simple declarative sentences? And how could a species without the capacity to use declarative sentences develop technology, let alone spacefaring technology?

[freedumb2003]

>>>Shows you there’s no accounting for tastes. I found Darmok extremely frustrating, since it is based on an idea of language that makes no sense. If the aliens were capable of using METAPHORS, why could they not also use or understand simple declarative sentences? And how could a species without the capacity to use declarative sentences develop technology, let alone spacefaring technology?

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The episode Darmok on TV!

(arms open?)

[papertyger]

Exactly!

Try writing a computer language predicated on metaphors :-\

[Zionist Conspirator]

Shows you there’s no accounting for tastes. I found Darmok extremely frustrating, since it is based on an idea of language that makes no sense. If the aliens were capable of using METAPHORS, why could they not also use or understand simple declarative sentences? And how could a species without the capacity to use declarative sentences develop technology, let alone spacefaring technology?

Exactly! Declarative sentences obviously exist within the stories themselves, so there's no reason they wouldn't outside the stories.

(Translation: Genesis is not a fable.)