Keltham, then, will jump ahead of Decision, to a lesser fragment of Coordination.  While the ordering of the subjects as math is somewhat different, on reflection, dath ilani children growing up sure do know what is a mutual-cooperation-dilemma, long before they learn the logical decision theory to solve them Lawfully.

...should he be worried that mutual-cooperation-dilemma comes out as eleven syllables, instead of one, if he just tries to say it in Taldane?  Probably.  Likewise that 'punishment', meaning the sting in an attempted 'threat' payoff matrix, is one syllable instead of six.  You could take a good guess at what kind of wreck this world would be, just from its language.

Keltham, then, will jump ahead of Decision, to a lesser fragment of Coordination.  While the ordering of the subjects as math is somewhat different, on reflection, dath ilani children growing up sure do know what is a cooperation-defection-dilemma, long before they learn the logical decision theory to solve them Lawfully.

...should he be worried that cooperation-defection-dilemma comes out as eleven syllables, instead of three, if he just tries to say it in Taldane?  Probably.  Likewise that 'punishment', meaning the sting in an attempted 'threat' payoff matrix, is one syllable instead of six.  You could take a good guess at what kind of wreck this world would be, just from its language.