system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek TNG] In "Darmok" how could a civilisation communicate only through metaphor without first having a language in order to write and speak the stories?
gpt
They did have a more "normal" language. But languages evolve.

Similar to how trying to listen to someone from England 1000 years ago isn't going to work for a modern English speaker. Or similar to how people today can have entire conversations with just emoji and understand it fine.