startrek
Interesting. According to Brent Spiner (the actor who plays the android Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1) it was Patrick Stewart's UK pronunciation of his character's name (day-tah instead of the US's dah-tah) that made this pronunciation canon, and
2) the character of Data and the popularity of Star Trek has led to "day-tah" now being the common pronunciation in the US, too.
https://youtu.be/xeqTMTOxid8 (π min)
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #data #pronunciation #English #EnglishLanguage
I keep recalling back in the 90s I worked for a small company that was acquired by another company called Bridge.
A colleague said one day he answered the phone, "Bridge." It was his wife. She said:
Oh dear. Are you playing #StarTrek at work again? 🖖
This week’s #literary #masterpiece, based on An Bonnán Buí by Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna. #StarTrek #Irish #linguistics
An Tribble Buí
A thribble bhuí, ’sé mo léan do luí
Níos ciúine ná veidhlín ermine;
Chan easpa bí ach nimhe clingonaigh
A d’fhág ’do luí thú ar chúl do chinn
(cibé áit a bhféadfadh sé sin a bheith).
O yellow tribble, I mourn you lying
Quieter than an ermine violin;
Not lack of food but Klingon poison
Has left you lying on the back of your head
(wherever that may be).
Screen-grab thread 🧵
What was the first episode of #StarTrek you ever saw?
For me it was ca 1974. I turned on the TV after school and saw good old Captain Koloff! (checks notes) Er, Trelane, the Lonely Squire of Gothos.
And there went any chance of a healthy social life as a teenager! 😁