• Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website
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    11 months ago

    it’s possible that they only use that weird allegory reference pattern when speaking formally to strangers or whatever

    It seems like an awfully bad idea to use a communication method that doesn’t transfer what you mean if you have a better option available.

    It’s also possible that their language in the original version makes more sense and is more practical and it just gets mangled by the universal translator.

    I doubt that’s the case. I don’t see how a non-metaphor based language would get turned into a metaphor based one through a software bug. Some big hand waving would need to happen for that.

    IMO the Tamarians probably have brains that are structurally different such that their metaphors come far more naturally.