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From: dtravel@sonic.net
On 1/11/2025 10:44 AM, Wouter Valentijn wrote:
> Op 10-1-2025 om 17:49 schreef Rhino:
>> On 2025-01-09 10:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> Rhino wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-01-09 4:49 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>> Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>>>> The fourth and final Star Trek: The Next Generation movie, Star
>>>>>>> Trek:
>>>>>>> Nemesis, put a nail in the coffin of what wasat the timea dying
>>>>>>> Star Trek
>>>>>>> franchise. Star Trek: Nemesis saw Captain Jean-Luc Picard
>>>>>>> (Patrick Stewart)
>>>>>>> confront a younger clone of himself,
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>> Germans don't call themselves Germans and they don't call their
>> country Germany: to the Germans, their country is Deutschland and they
>> are Deutsch, as is their language. It's the same with many native
>> tribes here in Canada. In BC for eexample, the European explorers and/
>> or settlers called each tribe something or another whose origin is not
>> clear to me but nowadays their activists insist on being called by the
>> name that they call themselves, which are usually unpronounceable in
>> English (at least to me). (This means we're probably offending them
>> further and contributing to their animosity by mispronouncing their
>> correct names.)
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>> So maybe Romulans actually call themselves Flooglurk but translate it
>> to the Federation term when speaking English.
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> Novels call them 'Rihannsu'.
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Romulans are fans of Fleetwood Mack? :) (From their 1975 self-titled
album. Song "Rhiannon".)
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