tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 07 20:51:34 1995
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Re: }} Chakotay -- what did he say?
- From: "Kevin A. Geiselman, Knight Errant" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: }} Chakotay -- what did he say?
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 20:51:34 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> Yeah, it sounded like "akuchimoya" to me, which proves nothing to speak of.
>
> Best guess is that it's gibberish the writers threw in to sound cool. Then
> again, they're trying to be oh-so culturally aware, it's certainly possible
> they actually went out and found something that means something in some
> Native American language (hey, they have Okrand's address, after all, and
> isn't his expertise in those languages?)
I'm not sure where I heard this but the "Native American" culture on
Voyager is made up so as not to offend any one particular actual native
american culture. By making it up they hope to avoid any problems of
accuracy, culturally or linguistically.
So, don't try to translate, they're making it up.
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