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By contrast, I see people clicking on the tweet/share/facebook button for the blog entry where I compared memes to speaking in metaphor ala Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra [1].

The ability to just state "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" is transformative when the alternative is telling an entire story every time you want to reference a complex idea.

Also, this is pretty much as close as real life ever gets to a "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" dynamic.

Star Trek's Tamarians whole language was references to stories -- "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" is, for them, a highly compressed statement.

Its approaching "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" territory amongst the nerdy set.

Just pictured in my head a modern day "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" moment where Picard instead has to learn to speak in animated gifs.

Am I going to be the first to bring up "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"?

At least it's more pithy than "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra".

Your own little "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" moment.

Star Trek was actually way ahead of its time with the episode "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" which was about a culture that used memes as communication.

I'm sure it has uses in other places, and, I'm generally all for remembering large strings of data via "Darmok and Jalad, at Tanagra"

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" aliens are using a prototype language like Javascript, instead of a class based language like Java.

The ability to just state "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" is transformative when the alternative is telling an entire story every time you want to reference a complex idea.

Also, this is pretty much as close as real life ever gets to a "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" dynamic.

Star Trek's Tamarians whole language was references to stories -- "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" is, for them, a highly compressed statement.

Its approaching "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" territory amongst the nerdy set.