S'smarith

S'smarith was a word used by Deanna Troi while discussing the difficulty of communicating without a common language to Jean-Luc Picard.
During the exchange, Troi held up a cup she was drinking from, and posited to her "We are stranded on a planet. We have no language in common, but I want to teach you mine. S'smarith. What did I just say?"
Picard guessed that she had meant cup, or glass. But Troi noted that she might have meant liquid, or clear, or brown, or , thus making her point. ()
Category:Linguistics
Category:Philosophy