• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    Handwaving tech and physics is easy. I’m not touching linguistics, other than to say I don’t think you can explain it away. Languages are hard, even if by some magic all species everywhere have some common base, which I doubt.

    • Potatisen@lemmy.world
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      I think in ToS Uhura knows a bunch of different languages and she’s like “this bit is similar to this language and this bit is similar to that language”. I always thought that made some kind of sense.

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      4 days ago

      I’m sure the folks at r/DaystromInstitute would come up with all sorts of ludicrous explanations.