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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek] How could the Tamarians be a warp capable species?

How could a culture that speaks in metaphors create technology sufficiently advanced enough for warp travel?  How can they easily convey they need a bolt that is 15mm wide let alone communicate with engineers and mathematicians with the intricacies needed to create such technologies?  How can they even say we need to increase the anti-mater/mater reaction to 15%? How can they say use the tractor beam to adjust the trajectory of an incoming asteroid?
gpt
I think the pictographic written language of the Chinese on earth is an apt comparison.  Each individual symbol translates into a concept, which makes sense in context, but it is still specific enough to get science accomplished.  The metaphorical nature of their speech is the literal translation of a poetic and flowing manner of speech which makes perfect sense to a native speaker.