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I can't remember if I mentioned this before, but, if I want to express to a friend the idea that the argument that they are making is going to be too hard for someone else to follow, because the examples and analogies which they are using are obscure, and therefore, to understand the argument, you need to have a whole lot of cultural context in common, and you just can't assume that people HAVE that level of cultural context in common, I just say that all in one word: "Darmok."

I find this vaguely ironic.

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Yeah, but Darmok totally does describe the concept you're expressing. So long as the person you are speaking to has that cultural reference, its just so much easier than the long version of the explanation.