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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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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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*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.
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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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Apparently, I've missed the deadline for entries, Siegfried!
------------------ "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."
Sorry for the joke. It's that small part of me that is still a music major.
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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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Well, some Trills bite, but only if you want them to.
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Couldn't tell you, sir.
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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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