[geeks] Best ST:TNG episode...

Peter L. Wargo pwargo at basenji.com
Wed Feb 13 23:22:57 CST 2002


On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 09:04 , Eric Dittman wrote:

> The whole "speaking in metaphor" idea bugged me.  How did they
> develop the words they needed to speak that way, and how many
> people die each year because they can't just yell "DUCK!" instead
> of saying "when BillyBob lost hold of the rope holding up the
> piano"?

See, and I thought just the opposite.  The idea of such a radically 
different communications structure intrigued me.

_P



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