Maps "canon" thoughts
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Still think the star trek star charts are more conceivable but they still show some errors on a small part.?
Don't forget there was a Cardassian in exile on Vulcan right around the time of Enterprise. First Contact with Cardassia probably wasn't the 24th Century.
That's why I go with the "trade embargo" theory. That allows for Iloja of Prim, and a passing knowledge of the race, but if that's forbidden territory for Federation trade, that would explain why we hear almost nothing until the turn of the 24th century where the first REAL contact was--when the Federation's borders finally butted up against the Cardassian border to the point where the Union took it as a threat.
In DS9, it also looks like Cardassia would enjoy a thick buffer of vassal states and allies in the spaces surrounding Bajor (at least Klaestron, Kressari, Xepolite, Yridian, perhaps also Ferengi). Perhaps the Union preferred to interact through such intermediaries for most of the early centuries of Earth starflight?
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
Neither [ONE] . . . reflects. The "one" is implied.
It doesn't matter how many "of them" there possibly are. For instance: Only one person out of a million winS in the lotto. The "out of a million" is irrelevant. Just the subject, "one" is relevant. So it takes a singular verb ending in "s." (The "s" at the end of singular verbs can stand for "singular," as a mnemonic device, if we need one btw.
Another example: Either of the two choices IS acceptable to me. "One" is implied. Either one IS acceptable. It doesn't matter that it's out of two (or two thousand) choices.
Only one out of a thousand people knowS this rule, btw.
BONUS: What does Kirk do grammatically wrong in the famous prologue he recites in the opening credits? It flooded the NBC switchboards, since many people knew grammar in '66. Anybody else out there know?
split infinitives are not wrong in English. it's Latin where you can't split the infinitive.
Agreed. The Victorians can take their split infinitives and shove them where the sun doesn't shine.
Well, split infinitives were considered wrong in standard English because they are impossible. If one's view of correct grammar is how people actually speak, then of course s-i's are fine. But then, so are overused apostrophe's.
They are of the devil, but many (most?) people do them.
They are of the devil, but many (most?) people do them.
Indeed. This was a Latin rule imposed upon a Germanic language because of some academics' dumb idea that Latin and its grammar represented the epitome of all languages. And Germanic languages, for the most part, do split infinitives. Some even REQUIRE them at certain times and if you don't, you sound like...well, what is "n00b" in German?
Indeed. So many philistines pronounce the silent letter in "often" that some dictionaries now list that as an acceptable alternate pronounciation.
That is the sort of behavior up with which I shall not put.
Ask them what they are lisTening to on their iPod, and see if they get the hint. They won't.
O tempora! O mores! How far must civilization decline before the Roddenb-era of perfectness begins? Then all will be right again. LisTen - I can hear him coming now. Let me hasTen to my window so I may see the Great Bird as he return's with heeling in his wing's.
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