I vaguely remember a TNG* episode in which humans encounter an alien race that found our language too ...inaccurate, and spent a lot of time going over each word and sentence, to precisely define its meaning.
* Was it TNG or am I dreaming?
*edit: Thank you everyone, but it wasn't "Darmok". The humans and the aliens were working, for a long time, on a treaty of sorts because the human language was so confusing and ambiguous and they had to go over every small details, over and over ...
Need to re-watch TNG
* Was it TNG or am I dreaming?
*edit: Thank you everyone, but it wasn't "Darmok". The humans and the aliens were working, for a long time, on a treaty of sorts because the human language was so confusing and ambiguous and they had to go over every small details, over and over ... Need to re-watch TNG