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   Message 9,452 of 11,202   
   T'phuk to All   
   Re: Worst technobabble moment?   
   30 Aug 05 03:37:21   
   
   XPost: alt.startrek, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: nimacarya@yahoo.com   
      
   On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:53:53 GMT, "Bo Raxo"   
    raised the antenna to   
   broadcast depth and busted *this* wacky shit out into the Matrix:   
      
   >   
   >   
   >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).   
      
   I believe the word you actually mean is "isosceles" triangle, not   
   isometric.   
      
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