I agreed it is more than a metaphor and then indicated the mistake you were making (and continue to make) by claiming they are analogous. Your latest error is to choose a specific mathematical definition when talking about linguistics. Try taking a less specific definition and you get:
a : similarity in organisms of different ancestry resulting from convergence
b : similarity of crystalline form between chemical compounds
You really need to stop conflating "similar" with "equal" and "analogous". They are not the same. The paper says there are similarities, it does not say they are equal. I even quoted the part where the paper says there are "10 of 13 design features". That is not equal or analogous, that is similar.
If the only point of sustance you have is that it missed 3 out of 13 design features, then you missed in the part in the paper where they actually came up with a name for this language. We call our language english, they're calling it cellese. They're both languages, that it failed to meet a requirement like cultural transmission didn't prevent them from naming it a language.
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