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[xiphias]

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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[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Well, it's only SORT of ironic, in that the person to whom you are pointing this out DOES communicate that way, and doesn't realize how much unpacking it requires. I am continually making this very reference to ablock in an effort to get him to communicate with outsiders in complete English sentences rather than by telegraphed analogy to (not-necessarily-) shared concepts. >:-)