Like most academics, I veer back and forth between conversations among IP law colleagues and conversations in which I explain what I do to everyone else. The two styles of discourse usually don’t resemble each other much. At last, however, I seem to have stumbled onto a shorthand that works in both communities. Last weekend a non-IP, non-law professional colleague asked about my current paper project. I said that I’m working on a theory of information policy. She looked blank and repeated her question, more or less. I said, “It’s about metaphor.” Ah, she replied. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
Perhaps most articles are more along the lines of Picard and the Sheliak. 🙂
http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Ensigns_of_Command
“I formally request third party arbitration…. I name the Grizellas to arbitrate. Unfortunately they are currently in their hibernation cycle.”
Temba, his arms wide.
Bruce – The new paper is a better working out of ideas that appeared first, in preliminary form, in Metaphor, Objects, and Commodities
54 Cleve. St. L. Rev. 141 (2006) (with my colleague George Taylor). Mike
Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
Greg, I agree entirely. The Sheliak are the epitome of lawyers.
Bruce> Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!
Mirab, with sails unfurled!
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