Okay, I can’t stand not saying something about the Trek Prodigy Vau N’Akat people’s saying:

There is no barrier we cannot overcome—for we are Vau N’Akat

Vau N’Akat motto

This is one of those Trek things… I know I’ve written in agreement with the 32nd century Ni’Var(Vulcan/Romulan planet) president’s stance that a civilization cannot be run on proverbs and Idioms.

But I have to say, I’m 21st century, this Vau N’Akat motto joins a rare few utterances that precedes it:

The good of many outweigh the good of one

Vulcan

Live long and prosper!🖖

Vulcan

To boldly go where no one has gone before.

Federation mission statement, one of

Infinite diversity in infinite combination.

Vulcan

It would be a glorious death! Today IS a good day to die!!

Klingon exclamative

Engage!

Federation Imperative

Your biological distinctiveness will be assimilated, resistance is futile!

Borg greeting

I have been and always shall be your friend.

Vulcan Human

Beam me up, Scotty

Federation

I cannot change the laws of physics!

Federation Engineering Assessment.

How many lights are there?

Cardassian enhanced interrogative

There are four lights.

Human final answer.

Nothing unreal exists

Vulcan declarative

Superior ability breeds superior ambition.

Vulcan Human

The past is written, but the future is left for us to write, and we have powerful tools: openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy and fear. And fear is the great destroyer.

Human

The line must be drawn here, this far, no further!

Human

Things are only impossible until they’re not

Human

I am not a naughty ungrateful twat, But I’d really like to wish that popculture social influencing media producer and publishers use more exciting and meaningful English(and other languages) in then coming years.

“This is so satisfying…” Says kids to just about every unexpected entropy-altering event. But there are many other more meaningful words: mesmerizing, rare, remarkable, hypnotic, novel, monotonous, soothing, pleasing, special, comforting, inimitable, unique, surprising, unlikely, eccentric, peculiar, idiosyncratic, surprising, repetitive, peculiar, uniform, irregular, random, right, wrong, sick, awesome, phat, hot, cool, …

Okay, okay So I too suffer the same influenced language from my youth, but can we please just use some more words? It would be very satisfying to know my kids learn things from mass social influencers.

The blog post has been so edifying to me, …, and satisfying—hopefully to you as well.

Merry Christmas!