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- From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Re: Planet Urrhghth (was: Frying Duck, or something)
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:19:29 GMT
- Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
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- car-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
-
- >And another thing, how come all those space aliens out there call
- >thier planet Zak or Quargotron or Jpimpzxx, not Earth or Home or
- >something a bit more logical like that? And why do there names
- >always contain rather too many Zs and Qs and Xs? Probably so's
- >they can get very high Scrabble scores.
-
- "Earth" may not sound very impressive to YOU. It always did to ME. I
- always thought that when an alien asked me what my planet was called I
- could be proud to call it Earth. Of course there's sf-short stories
- that tell us a different version of such a dialog:
-
- "What's the name of that planet of yours again? "Urf?" Sounds like a
- sexual disease!" Soldier in "Ngang Xtuk"
- ^
- This was explained to be a peculiar transcription, pronounced "sh."
-
-
- May the Quul Be with You!
-
- (C)OOL mcmxciii
- "Melmac! That's the name of my planet. 'T's also what it was made of."
- Alf
-