[Adept wrote]
>>No doubt a broo spends a lot of time hiding/spying on and stalking
>>members of the local culture.
[Goihl & Fahey]
> I worked with Turks for a couple years and learned nothing of
> Turkish. You can listen to people talk all day, but you have to have
> some grasp of a language to learn from hearing it.
Sure, but I'm talking about the Alien-movie-esque larval stage, and immediately after it. A broo is a sort of a parasite, so it could also have some aspects of "culture parasitism". Parhaps it picks up the rudiments of language quickly at that stage? Just a thought.
-Adept
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