[Sca-cooks] OOP, OT Ferengi

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 10:01 PM 6/6/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Someone wondered about the Star Trek word "ferengi"... sounded like
>"foreigner" in some language... maybe... but which?
>
>I suspect whoever was thinking of "faranji",sometimes written
>"farangi", but always pronounced as if it's a "j", since there's no
>hard "g" in Arabic.
>
>It comes from the Arabic word for "Frank", who attacked the Levant
>during what the Europeans call "Crusades". Thus all foreign Europeans
>came to be called "faranji".
>
>Anahita

Yup. I think that was it. There maybe another one too (Anglo-Saxon maybe?
My Klaeber is in Sutherlin).

My Frankish daughter insists that the Crusader-era Franks are uncultured,
dissolute upstarts, with no respect for their forebears...

Come to think of it, the Normans (who she lumps in there, as they are only
a little water away from the hairy slobbering hordes to the North) have a
lot in common with the Ferengi...

'Lainie
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