Toffler and Ives at the cave
Another supercool Darmok post by the Tensor.
The only fault I can find with it is in the 'Dude, seriously-Shaka, when the literal walls literally fell' bit, where I would assume that the speaker would just choose a more appropriate phrase, perhaps one referring to something being broken or some sort of home repair thing. Maybe their culture has a television show about something like that (that would be an awesome way of transmitting new phrases).
Also, no mention of the on-the-fly modification of the dictionary, when Picard's new action is added to it? Are the poor suckers not present supposed to just pick up the meaning from context? Also also: Alien Leader did explain the Darmok & Jalad story to Picard in pidginy (Tamarese-A) statements, as I recall. I do not know why this only worked in that one instance.
I would like to mention how annoying it is when (commenting, in this case) people talk about 'turning off knowledge.' Sigh.
The only fault I can find with it is in the 'Dude, seriously-Shaka, when the literal walls literally fell' bit, where I would assume that the speaker would just choose a more appropriate phrase, perhaps one referring to something being broken or some sort of home repair thing. Maybe their culture has a television show about something like that (that would be an awesome way of transmitting new phrases).
Also, no mention of the on-the-fly modification of the dictionary, when Picard's new action is added to it? Are the poor suckers not present supposed to just pick up the meaning from context? Also also: Alien Leader did explain the Darmok & Jalad story to Picard in pidginy (Tamarese-A) statements, as I recall. I do not know why this only worked in that one instance.
I would like to mention how annoying it is when (commenting, in this case) people talk about 'turning off knowledge.' Sigh.