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Why does Worf always say Wheapons ?

Okay...fine. You go and tell Worf he talks funny. I'll alert Doctor Crusher that there will be incoming in sickbay very soon.
 
That reminds me of how annoying I find Spock's insistence on pronouncing the 'or' in 'error' and other similar words (another example is 'Ambassador'). These words are supposed to have an 'er' sound despite their spelling, yet he insists on pronouncing 'error' like AIR OR. What is that all about?
 
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Funny, I do the same. Spock must have Italian ancestry. :techman:

(well, now that I think of it, Zachary Quinto is half-Italian :lol:)
 
That reminds me of how annoying I find Spock's insistence on pronouncing the 'or' in 'error' and other similar words (another example is 'Ambassador'). These words are supposed to have an 'er' sound despite their spelling, yet he insists on pronouncing 'error' like AIR OR. What is that all about?

Nimoy figured that since Spock grew up speaking an alien language, that he wouldn't speak English with a 100% natural accent. So he pronounced everything with a clipped accent and made an occasional weird inflection when pronouncing certain things.

He phased it out as the franchise went on, making Spock speak ever more naturally.
 
That reminds me of how annoying I find Spock's insistence on pronouncing the 'or' in 'error' and other similar words (another example is 'Ambassador'). These words are supposed to have an 'er' sound despite their spelling, yet he insists on pronouncing 'error' like AIR OR. What is that all about?

Nimoy figured that since Spock grew up speaking an alien language, that he wouldn't speak English with a 100% natural accent. So he pronounced everything with a clipped accent and made an occasional weird inflection when pronouncing certain things.

He phased it out as the franchise went on, making Spock speak ever more naturally.

To pronounce Error in that way is of course very logical :vulcan:
 
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Shouldn't Worf have really spoken more like Chekov considering he grew up around Russian parents? I think the notion of Worf speaking like a stereotypical -for Trek- Russian his hilarious, him mixing his V's and W's, attributing things to Russia that aren't true, stuff like that. ;)
 
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