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April 12th, 2004, 06:21 PM
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Muff Daggy
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Surprise! The roots of the word "Yahren"
Well, well, you all probably already know this, but I didn't. Whilst I was perusing the splendiferous web, I ran across a German phrase....
...and the word "Jahren" was prominently displayed.
"Jahren" is German for "year", and it's pronounced, "yahren"!
Can't believe it took me all these yahren to find out!!! 
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April 12th, 2004, 06:51 PM
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Well Muffit it's the first I've heard of it too so you are not alone!  |
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April 12th, 2004, 07:10 PM
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I had heard that, but I thank you for the proof.
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April 12th, 2004, 08:08 PM
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Thanks for sharing Muffit! I didn't know that either  |
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April 12th, 2004, 08:28 PM
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You're our own little Sherlock Holmes! Quite solid investigating!
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April 12th, 2004, 08:28 PM
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out there somewhere
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Now what will you charge to investigate the word "felgercarb"?
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April 12th, 2004, 08:45 PM
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Muff Daggy
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Originally Posted by thomas7g
Now what will you charge to investigate the word "felgercarb"?
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LOL! That's a good one! I'll bet it has an origin -- wonder if Glen will tell...
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April 12th, 2004, 09:02 PM
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Actually, it comes from the way the stories were so well knit together.
Sorry, y'all. Just needling you.
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April 12th, 2004, 11:16 PM
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Muff Daggy
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Aaargh Senmut should've seen that one coming.
All I can say is, ... "darn" !!! : D |
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April 13th, 2004, 12:49 AM
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It took me a while to coton on to your warped sense of humour, You certainly hooked me! You almost puled the wool over my eyes, spinnig that yarn! I'm dyeing of laughter...sorry I couldn't help needling you ! |
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April 13th, 2004, 12:39 PM
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As one who lived in Germany when I was in the Army I kind of thought Yahren was based on the German word for year.
I wonder if anyone knows if the "Geminese" language spoken in TOS is based on Latin or a Latin based language like Spanish or Italian. I know the Geminese term for Earth, Terra is Latin in origin. I know there is one scene in TOS (I think in Saga of a Star World) where an elderly person is speaking Geminese but I don't have the DVD and when I was a kid I didn't know any Spanish or Latin to listen for the similarity.
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April 17th, 2004, 07:08 PM
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I remember the scene where Starbuck, Boomer and Apollo are aboard the Gemini Freighter checking on the refugees and the elderly woman walks in with her husband speaking Geminese. Now, I don't know if the intent was to have the Geminese language connected to ancient Latin, but having watched the scene on the DVD several times I could not detect any words resembling any of the modern Latin languages like Spanish or Italian. One thing I did detect was that her pronunciation of the words, especially the vowel sounds were....very North American.
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May 24th, 2004, 11:29 AM
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Yahren
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Originally Posted by Muffit
"Jahren" is German for "year", and it's pronounced, "yahren"!
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Actually, "Jahr" is "year"
"Jahren" is the plural - "years"
The pronunciation is the same for most northen european languages, albeit with different spellings - "jaar", "år", etc.
One of my pet peeves with some of the galactica novels is that they sometimes use "yahrens" as a plural, which make no sense at all, since "yahren" is already the plural of "yahr" and doesn't need an "s" added to it!
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May 24th, 2004, 03:06 PM
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Colonial Language
From what I can tell, Gemonese is Latin. I briefly discuss the nature of Colonial language, as well as offer a detailed look at Colonial technical and scientific terms (in a way I haven't seen before) on my web site. It’s not much to look at yet, and is a slow work in progress, but I’ll get it all up eventually.
The Germanic basis for the word "yahren" is part of the reason that I think sectons and sectars are base-six time units: "sechs" = six.
my 2c
Bill
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May 24th, 2004, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Muffit
Well, well, you all probably already know this, but I didn't. Whilst I was perusing the splendiferous web, I ran across a German phrase....
...and the word "Jahren" was prominently displayed.
"Jahren" is German for "year", and it's pronounced, "yahren"!
Can't believe it took me all these yahren to find out!!!
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WOW Muffit that is so great. Yet ANOTHER example of how so
many DIFFERENT Cultures were included on the ORIGINAL BSG!   
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