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Re: lengwI' ("Trekkie?)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: lengwI' ("Trekkie?)
• Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:32:15 -0600
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Voragh:
> >Hmm... you're using {lengwI'} "rover (or traveller, voyager <g!>)
> >for "Trekkie/Trekker"?  Not bad.  The standard phrase of course
> >would be *{Hov leng ngotlhwI'} "Star Trek fan(atic)".

{lengwI'} may now be a double pun, for it is also the translation of 
"voyager".  Thus *{Hov leng: lengwI'} "Star Trek: Voyager".

naHQun:
>I could have sword I heard Okrand himself say "lengwI' jIH" on "Trekkies" 
>or one of the other films I have, I'll have to rewatch it.

If you do, please let us know.

I haven't seen "Trekkies" or any other film about fandom.  Does Okrand say 
anything else of interest to us on this list - other than the well-known 
story of how he invented Klingon?




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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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