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D'Oh! First Contact, I remember now. But then again, he was speaking to sonmeon from the past, perhaps he remembered in time that saying she would have interphasetransmogrified him would have got little more than a blank look.
(and then there's the novelisation, that changes the phaser setting to level 1, which would have ghiven him a "nasty rash". . .)
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Bernd, no, the official site of the Iranian gov't.
Or they just use a broader definition for vapourisation. It isn't like words don't get diluted and polluted every day.
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: D'Oh! First Contact, I remember now. But then again, he was speaking to sonmeon from the past, perhaps he remembered in time that saying she would have interphasetransmogrified him would have got little more than a blank look.
Without wishing to sound smug (yet succeeding all the same) I actually saw that one coming
I'd suggest that such an explanation is taking things too far even for a sci fi analysis forum! If it was the case that the true term would be meaningless to her and that the process involved has nothing to do with vapourisation of any kind, then why would it even occur to Picard to use the word vapourised? This would imply that he would become a cloud of red mist, rather than just wink out of existence. Under such circumstances he would simply have said "kill" and given her a meaningful look.
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Because Picard is the CO of the Fed's flagship, making him uber smart? Or, being an archeologist and all he has a decent grasp on what would have been understood way back when, especailly with as often as E-? as gone back there is could have been part of his E-? command training.
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Negronic. Or Jive.
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If Picard is speaking French, why on earth does the translator give him a damned English accent? Oi, that's my favorite little pet peeve from TNG. The Earl-Grey drinking, Proper-English speaking FRENCHMAN.
EDIT: As well as when Beverly pronounced 'croissant' with a French accent. You're speaking ENGLISH, you don't use the *loanword* like it was in the original language.
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The points you made also show the 'culturalisation' that the future has undergone, with travel made easy. Plus, with Picard having 'run off' from the farm he could very well have wanted to change enough not to be a frenchy, so he changed as much as possible.
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"EDIT: As well as when Beverly pronounced 'croissant' with a French accent. You're speaking ENGLISH, you don't use the *loanword* like it was in the original language."
Some people would.
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: The points you made also show the 'culturalisation' that the future has undergone, with travel made easy. Plus, with Picard having 'run off' from the farm he could very well have wanted to change enough not to be a frenchy, so he changed as much as possible.
Only later in life to revert back to his French pride. Watch "The Last Outpost", he's very much proud of his French heritage there.
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Jeez, has everyone forgotten that England suddenly remembered that they had a rightful claim to the French throne and invaded France in 2070? Since this is France, they, of course, immediately surrendered.
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Yeah, some people WOULD pronounce 'croissant' with a French accent, but some people are pretentious pricks and I don't think that's in Beverly's character...the whole Dr. Reyga thing notwithstanding. Although I don't suppose you can call 'blatant disregard for the burial rites of other cultures' PRETENTIOUS...although...it might be 'pretentious' to think that you've got the RIGHT to disregard them.
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Croissandwich.
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