[2630] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: tlhIngan Hol qun vIwam - an article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 19 04:51:25 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: matthew@viper.uk.tele.nokia.fi (Matthew Faupel)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 09:41:12 GMT
In-Reply-To: <8988.9401190628@unix.bton.ac.uk> (message from TruthSeeker on Wed
, 19 Jan 1994 06:28:23 +0000 (GMT))
> I, too, can see the ideals behind the creation of Romulan and Ferengi
> languages.
Complete side-track. Last night I read a book called "Queen Victoria's
Revenge" by Harry Harrison and in it there's an air stewardess character who
specialises in multi-lingual insults. I recognised most of them, but one of
the ones she used was "ferengi". So,
1: In which (Terran) language is "ferengi" an insult?
2: What does it mean?
3: Did the STTNG people know this when they decided to call their race
Ferengi?
Matthew
