Now If you had said towel, I would have assumed it was the ultimate Douglas Adams reply, lol.
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doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 11 months agoSo basically, it’s a meme originating from Star Trek wherein a species communicates exclusively through idioms and descriptions of events, making it impossible to translate without an understanding of their overall culture and history. Shaka When the Walls Fell probably means failure, it can be translated as “wow” in best case or “this is devastating” in the worst case.
mirror_slap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Floey@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This almost sounds like a prediction of contemporary meme culture where every situation or emotion is conveyed though a shared collection of phrases and images.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 11 months ago
You would be the 487,962nd person to think that. Yolo, you’re so Skibidi, you’re so Fanum tax.