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[gfish]

Moving sucks, but it is pretty much done. I'm all the way back in Seattle, and have updated all my location fields to reflect this.

So, to distract me while I try to tetrissokoban my workroom into shape, a question:

You're trapped with an alien who only communicates via mythological analogy. What story from our cultural heritage do you tell them? Gilgamesh is taken, obviously.

Comments

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

That was always my problem with the episode, too.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

ditto. Or a language.

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

But it's such a pretty episode! And it's practically the only one where they tried to deal seriously with language... at all. But yeah, Darmok = story win, linguistics fail.