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Let me tell you something about Hew-mons

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨negativenull@startrek.website⁩ to ⁨risa@startrek.website⁩

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  • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They can’t speak English though. In fact the scene this screenshot is from is them trapped in the past unable to communicate because their universal translators are offline. I would assume Quark speaks Federation Standard, but apparently that’s not close enough to English to figure out what they’re saying in the 50s

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would assume Quark speaks Federation Standard

      I assume he made a clear point of never learning it.

      I’d put larger odds on Nog and Rom eventually learning it (but not at the time of the screenshot).

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      • psmgx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I could see Quark learning it. He lives in the federation, and fluency is good for business. Probably a RoA to that effect.

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    • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One thing I’ve always wondered, and this is hardly the most unbelievable aspect of the science fiction elements of this show but it’s one of the most pervasive and constant; why don’t we ever hear the native languages of the aliens underneath the sounds of the universal translators? Most, although not all, of them speak by vibrating the air, so where are those sounds disappearing to?

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      • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The translator also emits an interference pattern that cancels out the original speech to the listener

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This was a plotpoint in DS9 where the UT didn’t picked up the nuances of a language but the mutants who were able to comprehend the language deciphered what was really meant.

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      • disk42@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They actually do this in Star Trek Beyond

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Quark would never lower himself to speaking anything human. He views humans and the Federation as inferior and foolish.

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      • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Understanding a customer as famously wily as the Federation through language would be a business advantage. We know this because it works today.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re able to say it. It’s an insult.

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    • Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I read a theory once that “daimon”, the Ferengi title for captain, could translate to “good/lead merchant” or something along those lines.

      So if we assume that’s true, it’s possible that “hewmon” means something like “shitty merchant”, and it’s just pure coincidence it basically sounds like human.

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      • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I like this theory, it feels like one of the authentic ways that slurs in earth languages actually get invented.

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      • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ahh yes, the Monkeigh defense. I always knew the Ferengi were really space elves!

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    • negativenull@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what I figured

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      • hessianerd@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean it is usually said with some distain in the voice. I had always thought it was some sort of pun or something.

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    • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Human is the one word they know in Federation Standard. They go out of their way to mispronounce it.

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My headcanon is that most of their speech is ferengi being translated by the universal translator, but when they say the word human they just use the human word for human which then goes untranslated.

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Makes sense considering we know from Darmok that the universal translator doesn’t translate proper names.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Quark can say human, he’s just unwilling to do so. He makes it into an insult instead.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hugh Mon.

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    • negativenull@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huge mon

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still less absurd than Data’s contractions (except all the times he actually used them). Maybe it was something he was programmed to tell humans so that even being superior to them, people would still be able to point to one thing they could do better.

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  • usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    they can they just won’t

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  • Rom@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They have the ability to pronounce ‘human’ correctly (see: the root beer scene). They choose to mispronounce it deliberately as an intimidation tactic.

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  • TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s called having an accent.

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    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For one word? Everything else is fine. That’s not really how accents work.

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