[2657] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: tlhIngan Hol qun vIwam - an article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 20 00:27:06 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: James Jones <jejones@microware.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 05:59:42 -0600
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jan 1994 09:41:12 GMT."
<9401190943.AA00756@Sun.COM>
>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?
A while back, there was a *Time* or *Newsweek* article on Ethiopia, in
passing, it referred to *ferengi* (or was it *verengi*? I should've
saved the article), and gave the English meaning as "foreigner(s?)".
So...perhaps the answer is "Amharic."
>2: What does it mean?
See (1).
>3: Did the STTNG people know this when they decided to call their race
> Ferengi?
I don't know, though I'd bet they did.
James Jones
