I thought this video was absolutely fascinating throughout, even the ad.
The main thrust of it is about how natural Earth languages make use of idiom and metaphor frequently, and how Tamarian is subtly different from this. But we do also make use of a similar direct literary allusion, to different degrees in different languages. Mandarin has a number of examples, but we can also point to “crossing the Rubicon” as an example in English.
More recently, the use of memes has taken on a very Tamarian-like role.
I remember that. The Magicians was wild and I loved it.
The Magicians were one of those books where I hated most of the main characters but loved the series. The TV series was great even though they deviated from the books.