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Re: Excelsior: Forged In Fire

naHQun ([email protected])



On Feb 6, 2008 12:37 PM, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11:25 AM Wednesday 2/6/2008, I wrote:
> > >> glo'meH - glommer
> > >
> Another thought... just *{ghIlam} might be the better.  *{ghIlammey} might
> well be misunderstood as "glommer" by a Federation Standard speaker.  E.g.:
>
>   Terran:   "What are those things?"
>   Klingon:  "We call them {ghIlammey}.
>   Terran:   "Glommer?"
>   Klingon:  "No. {ghIlammey}."
>   Terran:   "Glommer?"
>   Klingon:  "{ghIlam...mey}!!"
>   Terran:   "Glommer?"
>   Klingon:  [sighs] "Fine. Close enough."

Incidentally, there was only ONE at the time of the episode. That's
why they had to get it back from Jones.


~naHQun

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