Edward, he held the flood back.
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NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 months agoHow would the Tamarians ever develop any advanced technology? Can you imagine an engineering discussion in Tamarian? Like, what is the word for capacitor? “Edward, when he enclosed conductive foil and electrolyte in a metal cylinder”? What would a Tamarian technical manual even look like?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
morhp@lemmy.wtf 7 months ago
I mean, they seem to have basic grammar for items and people and actions (“eyes”, “walls”, “fell”), it’s possible that they only use that weird allegory reference pattern when speaking formally to strangers or whatever. 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.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 7 months ago
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.