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It's a peaceful life (lemmy.world)
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TNG s5e2 " Darmok"

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[–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Once again, the langue makes no sense. Unless it evolved from regular speech patterns other species have. Because it would require children to have been born with knowledge they shouldn’t understand to begin speaking the language properly.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago*

    Stephenson goes for a more believable version of this concept in Diamond Age. The most common written language is pictograms, with a minority being able to read words. I suppose we could imagine the people then going from this stage to speaking the sounds associated with an image without understanding that the sounds form words with individual meaning.

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