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    Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

    Arthur Chu Retweeted Neil Shyminsky

    They got a lot right in that episode, like the idea that the meme is really just a description of a single moment within the story, and it's completely possible to use the meme without having read/watched the whole thing it comes fromhttps://twitter.com/neilshyminsky/status/1302322781091229700?s=19 …

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    Neil Shyminsky @neilshyminsky
    I’ve commented before that Star Trek’s most prescient prediction was communication via memes in ‘Darmok’. So it was only a matter of time before someone started making these: pic.twitter.com/6wQfRj8wJX
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    • Christopher Keelty 🏳️‍🌈 Cheef Kief Lux "Diehard Urbanist" Alptraum Nilla Napier official sources called this differently, PhD Jane Mayhew Lucky Jade! 🍂❄️🍄 Thomas Murch
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      2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

        We never actually hear the story of what Temba generously gave up and to whom he gave it but we know "Temba, his arms wide" is "generosity" And we can probably infer there's a little more nuance to it than just the word "generosity" or saying "You should be generous"

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020

        It's some kind of story where instead of demanding what was his by right Temba sacrificed to make sure everyone got what they needed and by so doing averted disaster for everyone including himself The alien captain uses it to argue for giving the Enterprise another chance

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      2. Narandia‏ @NarandiaOwl 6 Sep 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        I mean even before we called it memes we already had plenty of stories that work this way, much like Picard uses the epic of Gilgamesh as one of his tales. The difference was that the aliens communicate exclusively through them which is why the translator failed.

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      3. Narandia‏ @NarandiaOwl 6 Sep 2020
        Replying to @NarandiaOwl @arthur_affect

        (or at least seemed to fail, it did translate regular words just fine but without the pool of references of names and the stories they represent it made no sense to the crew)

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      2. Black Trans Lives Matter‏ @CascadianGrimd1 6 Sep 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        What I always wondered was how the aliens learned those stories in the first place, if they spoke only in references to them.

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      3. Laine Ballou‏ @LaineBalou 6 Sep 2020
        Replying to @CascadianGrimd1 @arthur_affect

        I did, too. It just now occurred to me, maybe visually, like with mime or silent film?

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      1. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 6 Sep 2020
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        arthur chu, posting

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      2. Lenoxus‏ @Lenoxus 6 Sep 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        This Atlantic article has a really interesting analysis of the episode https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/star-trek-tng-and-the-limits-of-language-shaka-when-the-walls-fell/372107/ … Key is that they only *seem* to be "speaking in metaphor", but what's actually going on is stranger and more fundamental — a kind of "logic" akin to how video games simulate things.

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Sep 2020
        Replying to @Lenoxus

        Ha ha, yes, Bogost takes the same approach that the guy who wrote that play did The Tamarians aren't "poetic" or "religious" or whatever, they're *efficient* A meme or an allusion is like a program calling a function from a library, in both cases a "reference"

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