The metaphor language made me wonder how kids in that culture learned to speak it. To understand what “Shaka when the walls fell” you need some backstory - who was Shaka? What happened when the walls fell? How did it affect Shaka? To understand the jokes here you have to know the Olympic break dancer story, the DiCaprio “cheers” meme, etc. I would think the civilization must have had a rudimentary factual language for telling stories and explaining the metaphors, and the metaphor language was more advanced, used by people once they learned enough metaphors to understand it.
The metaphor language made me wonder how kids in that culture learned to speak it. To understand what “Shaka when the walls fell” you need some backstory - who was Shaka? What happened when the walls fell? How did it affect Shaka? To understand the jokes here you have to know the Olympic break dancer story, the DiCaprio “cheers” meme, etc. I would think the civilization must have had a rudimentary factual language for telling stories and explaining the metaphors, and the metaphor language was more advanced, used by people once they learned enough metaphors to understand it.