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I think you have a tough task!

As you may already know, a few years ago there was a Star Trek
episode in which Captain Picard and a friendly alien were
stranded on a planet together and had to cooperate to defeat a
very aggressive monster.  The problem was the alien communicated
in metaphor and could not understand Picard's basically Cartesian
logic.  Conversely, with no shared culture, Picard could not
understand any of the alien's metaphors! Very tricky!  Bottom
line - they worked something out and survived.

It was one of the best episodes of that series I have seen - you
may even be able to find the video. 

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Roger    

bundy wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to brainstorm for a paper topic and need a little dialogue.  Can
> anyone help me?
> 
> The first point is that we cannot be neutral in our language, because we are
> not neutral.  In our evolution, neutrality has not been
> a necessity, and it is not now (although it is sometimes in our best
> interest to appear neutral - but never to be so).

(snip)

-- 
Roger Jones
Thornhill, Ontario,
Canada.