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"in my experience, communication is a matter of patience, and imagination"

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"Allegory might have been a better term for explaining Tamarian. While metaphor represents one subject as similar to another object, allegory replaces one with another entirely. Allegory’s veiled language is powerful, because allegories effectively freeze time, making a historical or fictional scenario immortal."

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both the crew of the enterprise and the tamarians come to an understanding. the captain learned more about their metaphors by asking the tamarian captain to tell him more details and slowly understood what their most repeated phrases were. this allowed him tocommunicate with the tamarian first officer. the crew learned communication would prove diffcult because they didn't know all the tamarian languages' vocabulary nor did they know the narratives behind their vocabulary.

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the crew of the enterprise realize the tamarians seem to be using proper nouns mostly but they can't understand what they mean. as time passes and the crew hear more repetitions of the tamarians language while the captain communicates with the tamarian captain through gestures both learn a bit more about the language. they realize the tamarians are speaking in metaphor.

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both the tamarians and the crew of the enterprise try to communicate upon initial contact but neither understand one another