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   Bo Raxo  wrote:   
      
   >I really hated the way Voyager writers kept using the prefix "iso" on   
   >things, to make them sound more techie.  "Iso" means "equal" (isometric, for   
   >example, meaning has sides of equal length).  So in the otherwise excellent   
   >"Equinox" when they start talking about "iso-grams of dilithium crystals" I   
   >suddenly lose my suspension of disbelief and start muttering that nobody   
   >asked Andre Bormanis about the script.   
      
   To misquote Foghorn Leghorn: "No, no, son, you gots it all wrong!"   
      
   Iso doesn't mean equal!   
      
   ISO stands for "Intergalactic Standards Organization"  Those were   
   I.S.O. grams of folgers crystals they were talking about!   
      
   And remember, on Battle Star Galactica, Kobol is not the KOmmon Business   
   Oriented Language, but rather the plant where all life originated! ;-)   
      
   Terry "WARP POWER TO THE SHIELDS! -- my favorite technobabble" Wood   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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