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Posted by Deep6 on :

Right now Im watching the DS9 episode "Rejoined" and I got to thinking...what the hell kind of name is Trill for a planet? Its kinda cool for a race but downright silly for a planet. But maybe that's just me.

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

The real name of the Trill homeworld is Mordent.

*wonders how many people will get it.*
*wonders how many people think he's just weird.*

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Posted by Deep6 on :

I dont get it, but that dont mean your weird...not for sure anyway

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

*thinks for a bit* *doesn't get it either*

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

*rolls eyes and pulls out his copy of Arban's Complete Conservatory Method for Trumpet*

Okie dokie. A trill is a musical ornament which consists of the rapid alternation of a note with the note one half/whole tone above it. The mordent is the same thing only faster.

A lame joke, I admit.

Posted by David Sands (Member # 132) on :

My Latin is a bit rusty, but does mordent mean "they bite"? (If you don't hold the Dax's homeworld in high regard, I guess that's not too weird!)

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Posted by David Sands (Member # 132) on :

Apparently, I've missed the deadline for entries, Siegfried!

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"Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the Tao to survivial or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed."

"...attaining one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the pinnacle of excellence. Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War, 6th century B.C.E.

Posted by Deep6 on :

Oh! Of course! How could I ever have not gotten that one?

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

*slaps forehead*

Sorry for the joke. It's that small part of me that is still a music major.

Posted by Feste on :

Hmmm. Well, that's okay, I once knew a family of certified geniuses. They all looked like fish, by the way, with enormous exophthalmic eyeballs. They had a joke book for geniuses and the punchline of their favorite joke was, "And the half-life of carbon is 2000 years?" Honestly, they would fall about in hysterics. Two of them eventually went mad.

Also, I hate to nag but what about the flaming Dr. Pepper recipe? It's always wise to know what you're drinking at redneck weddings.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Well, some Trills bite, but only if you want them to.

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Don't worry, Siegfried, I got he joke right away.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Morsus is Latin for bite, I should know, I just had my Latin final [shudders].

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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

Couldn't tell you, sir.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

So what's the name for when you're playing the trumpet (or other brass instrument) and you roll your tongue (Like a scottish rough 'R") to make a trilling sound?

Yes, this is real. I used to be a band kid myself, and I know there's a name for it besides "trill," ( at least, my band director said so) but I forget what.

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

Rolling your tongue to get a trilling effect? I'll have to look into that. You normally don't use your tongue to trill since that affects the air flow and stability of the embouchure. But I'll see what I can find.

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Isn't it called 'virato' or something? And is used by people who think they're good, not realising that people who are really good don't spice up music when it doesn't need to be.

I've never come across a mordent. But in backwards Britain we still say 'crotchet, minum and bar' instead of your new fangled American terms. No respect for history I tells ya!

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

1st, I can answer that for you, being more of a woodwind specialist, its called flutter-tounging... easier to do on the flute than on the clarinet.

there is also double or triple tounging on brass instruments (you can do them on woodwinds, but the embroucher doesn't make it easy )

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

I just plunk differently at the piano.

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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

Isn't it great, Elim, that all we have to worry about is holding a few keys down at the right time, and knowing when to presse/release a pedal?

None of this kinky tounge-rattling for us Men of Ivory, eh?
(While we're playing our instuments, at least )

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Posted by Deep6 on :

Damn if this thread didnt go into the complete opposite direction than originally intended.

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

Double and triple tonguing on the trumpet is okay and needed for a lot of works. Flutter-tonguing is NOT something I recommend. I've tried it before, and it wreaks havoc with the embrochure (more so than multiple tonguing).

Anyway, I think we better turn this thread back onto its original purpose before someone locks it and tells us to take it to the Officers' Lounge. I think Trill is a very odd name for the planet, too.

Posted by bear (Member # 124) on :

lol

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

I happen to like the name for a planet...

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

I like the name for the planet too.

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