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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] That's just your friendly UT at work. Probably most races are rather embarrassed to be forced to use the real, native name for their planet in interstellar public, and have it literally translated. After all, in 95% of the cases, the name will mean "dirt". In fact, the UT is likely to have a special "proper name translation avoidance function" to steer around these embarrassing situations (the doctor must really hate being known as "feline predator's cardiac organ proverbial feuding family or gaelic for of the smug", for example). Which in itself must cause some confusion at times: for example, the Troglytes of "Cloud Minders" weren't just an alien proper name like Kirk first thought, but a translated descriptive term... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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