[2634] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: tlhIngan Hol qun vIwam - an article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 19 09:20:58 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 14:19:18 GMT
Matthew Faupel writes:
>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?
"farang" means "foreigner" in, I think, Thailand, though not necessarily as
an insult. Obviously a borrowing from English -- perhaps "ferengi" is
another?
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