Astryr the Seiber-Swynwraig on Nostr: linguists: Darmok is a good but unrealistic episode because there's no way memes ...

linguists: Darmok is a good but unrealistic episode because there's no way memes would supplant normal modes of communication within a society

me: *frequently and literally unable to express concepts to my parents because the only way i can think to describe things is "ralph sitting on the bus exclaiming carelessly his own mortality" and there's no easy way to explain all the consequents of that meme without sharing the meme with them*