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I watched an old ep of DS9, and heard Sisko say "Come in Ganda" and Ezri responded "Gander here".
Which one is it? I think this discussion happened before, but I'm not sure.
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Probably Gander, since it's a river in New Foundland
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A very minor and unimportant river, IIRC. The scene seems to have been redubbed, perhaps because they used "Ganges" like in the closed captioning. Anyway, it's impossible to clearly say "Ganda here" because of the way the tongue has to move back to form the h sound, and thus an r would form. It's similar to how an sh sound is sometimes inserted between a word that ends in t and a word that begins in y. We also have the accent that involves changing the -a in words to -er anyway (which the above tongue thing is probably responsible for), so I think it's more likely to be "Ganda" than "Gander."
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Well, it's the most important river in the province.
I still prefer Gander, despite what Frank says.
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I think it was originally Gander and not Ganges. Closed captioning would have happened after the episode had been finished and previewed. It's most likely the captioners didn't know what/where Gander was or how to spell it. It's possible they just misheard it. They just used Ganges because it sounded close or of a misunderstanding.
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And it could be a non-earth river, assuming Trek could stand to be non-terrocentric (is that a word?) for once.
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I think the entire world except Newfoundland is Oldfoundland, otherwise, it wouldn't be new!
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Tim meant to say, "all evidence and logic that exist only in my mind, and not in the real world."
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Nah, he means everyone's mind except finickity speech specialists.
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