That was such a stupid episode. The idea that a culture could become technologically advanced with a language made up of references to a single story is just sad. How do you express concepts like “the circuit breaker is overloaded” or “Polystyrene is more dimensionally stable”
I understand that SciFi is to some extent about suspension of disbelief, but that’s asking too much.
uhhh, think smaller. How does a culture learn to ONLY communicate by reciting stories WITHOUT creating a language with which to speak them? I mean, if they can understand the individual words and meanings of the phrases they recite, then you’d think they’d understand those same words in a different sentence. The whole idea was flawed from the beginning… or to put it another way, This episode = when the walls fell
How can you say they didn’t have a language when you heard them speak it?
It wasn’t that they had no language, it was that they had developed (on top of that language) a method of expression that relied entirely on allegory.
Sure it’s a little ridiculous, but it was making the statement that all cultures, no matter how different, have myths — many of these myths transcend their cultures of origin, and are universal.
Shaka, when the walls rocked out
When, exactly, did Jean-Luc Picard abandon his captain’s chair to ROCK OUT?
That was such a stupid episode. The idea that a culture could become technologically advanced with a language made up of references to a single story is just sad. How do you express concepts like “the circuit breaker is overloaded” or “Polystyrene is more dimensionally stable”
I understand that SciFi is to some extent about suspension of disbelief, but that’s asking too much.
im looking forward to sfdebris doing a review on this one
Temba, his arms wide.
uhhh, think smaller. How does a culture learn to ONLY communicate by reciting stories WITHOUT creating a language with which to speak them? I mean, if they can understand the individual words and meanings of the phrases they recite, then you’d think they’d understand those same words in a different sentence. The whole idea was flawed from the beginning… or to put it another way, This episode = when the walls fell
How can you say they didn’t have a language when you heard them speak it?
It wasn’t that they had no language, it was that they had developed (on top of that language) a method of expression that relied entirely on allegory.
Sure it’s a little ridiculous, but it was making the statement that all cultures, no matter how different, have myths — many of these myths transcend their cultures of origin, and are universal.
THIS.
Just shutup & Enjoy the show. <3