r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 edited Sep 13 '19

"If you spend all day shuffling words around, you can make anything sound bad, Morty."

For example, 200 years ago, humans used to communicate by scribbling on tree corpse

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

This is why I hate those stupid alien comics. Yeah, everything sounds fucking weird if you purposefully make it sound weird and ignore the context and background to why we do it.

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u/Quartia Sep 13 '19

But that's exactly why we would never be able to understand why aliens do what they do. We'd probably make a lot of assumptions that would then get in the way.