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*rolleyes*
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So, how does one pronounce thus "shuftie"? Does the 'u' sound like the one in "up"? Or like the "oo" in "book"? Assuming, of course, you're not from someplace where both those sounds are the same.
Or, even, is it like the "oo" in "moon"? Only, that doesn't sound right.
By the way, why has this been moved to the tech board only after the discussion moved from technology to British slang?
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Umm, good point. Now, what to do with a good point?
Incidentally, TOS "Arena" has an actual verbal reference to aft phasers on NCC-1701. Either they are the same as on the Defiant, or then the same as shown in the Captain's Chair cutout, or then something else altogether. Quite possibly all Constitutions have identical aft weapons, including both the dorsal aft ones in ENT "IaMD" and the under-shuttlebay aft ones in Captain's Chair...
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I pronounce it with the "u" from "up". Although there might be some people out there, madman with no regard for rhyme or reason, who would pronounce it with the "oo" sound. I say we leave them be and continue talking about rear-facing weaponry. Ooh er.
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While I've never had occasion to use the word, I'd always thought it was pronounced with an -oo- sound. . . But then I've never heard anyone else use it either, so that impression comes purely from seeing the word written down. I speak Engleesh, I learn eet from a boook. . .
I pronouce it 'shu' as in shut, and 'tea' as in the drink made by boiling leaves and adding cow lactation. I then add a 'FFF' to the middle, making 'SHUF-TY' (two syllables)
Also, I think that it comes from the word comes from the arabic.
Going back to the thread (oh no!) isn't it wierd the way that such an enormous ship (compared to the NX) has so few weapons hard points. Perhaps Earth Starfleet charter wasn't the same as the UFP Starfleet charter.
Or was all those nasty Vulcans telling the fraidy cat humans what a scary place the galaxy is?
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Or a ship of exploration shold not double as a battleship.
Imagine Jaques Coustau sailing around in the USS Iowa.
Tough to announce your peaceful intentions while bristeling with weaponry.
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I can see Cousteau fishing off the fantail of the New Jersey using those special C4 lures.
BTW, wasn't the whole concept of Connies not having aft weaponry based on the Starfleet Battles games as a way to level the playing field between the different ship types?
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So, was the Connie MSD shown in IaMD2 really the same as the Drexler rendering from The Captain's Chair? For some reason I remember thinking otherwise when I first watched the episode.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Or a ship of exploration shold not double as a battleship.
Imagine Jaques Coustau sailing around in the USS Iowa.
Tough to announce your peaceful intentions while bristeling with weaponry.
I agree, but you don't send in the Rainbow Warrior every time an outpost next door to enemy teritory goes mysteriously quiet do you?
Most weeks the E nil was either flying the flag for the federation, or carrying their big stick. While she may have been a ship built for exploration, she was still a ship of the line. Maybe she was a bit like the RN's HMS Leeds Castle, on the Falkland Islands patrol.
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BTW, the Calypso was originally a minesweeper, built for the Royal Navy in 1942 in the United States, BYMS-26, hull number J-826.
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: Well, you live in Liverpool. Shouldn't you be used to that by now?
Remembering that now doesn't impress me.
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