Remember that time they beamed down to Planet Utah or whatever, where they had all these perfect white people in a perfect society, and they took Weasley prisoner becuase he tripped over a fence or something? And they were going to execute him, and the crew couldn't intervene because of the Prime Directive?

That was one moment in which I loved the Prime Directive.

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Meh is onomatopoeia.

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Can't say I do. What's the Prime Directive again? That you shouldn't interfere in other cultures or summat, no matter how buggered up they are? Seems a silly rule to me.

In Star Trek: Valium, the Prime Directive seemed to be "Mess around with other cultures as much as you like, unless doing so would get you home by lunchtime, in which case your actions are bad."

Fuck, I hated that show...

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I think they were just using the Prime Directive as an excuse to let Wesley die.

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How many times do the crew have to get trapped on the holodeck before they rip the damned thing out and put in racquetball courts?

How were the Borg any different from, say, IBM?

Why do the Klingons have such a hardon for superfluous apostrophes? They're all like, sh'e is b'uil't like a br'ick sh'ithou'se.

Do the Enterprise's toilets flush right out into space? If not, why not?

Who would know if Troy was making up all that ESP crap?

Lastly: SYNTHEHOL? Why, God, why??

This concludes my Seinfeld impression.

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OK Mr. Linguist, I thought onomatopoeia was where the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of its referent, like the "clang" of a bell. "Meh" just sounds like a dismissive grunt to me-- an indexical sign, but not a word.

Ooh, we're fighting now.

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what they mean when they... post pictures of me felching gorillas.

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what they mean when they... post pictures of me felching gorillas.

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Shouldn't you be learning the Dewey Decimal system or something?

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Okay then, what is the difference between these two words: "grunt" vs "ugh"? They both refer to the same thing, but they are very different. One is a "label", a name given to a type of sound made by people (and other similar noises, such as a pig). The second is an imitation, in text, of a grunt. Thus, the second word is onomatopoia - an attempt to simulate a sound in pronounceable text.

"Meh" is essentially just a grunt. Someone can't meh, or meh at you. They say "meh", or go "meh". They can grunt, but they can't meh. Maybe in years to come, it will enter the English language and actually become a verb/noun, just like grunt (which, if you say it out loud, sounds rather like the sound it refers to). Until then it is just an imitation of a sound - onomatopoeia.

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FOOD FIIIGHT!!!

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*throws a pie at boorite* wheee!

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Hot damn, a Star Trek Seinfeld thread. Just as the prophesy foretold.

I mean, what's up with Spock? I'm a human, I'm a vulcan, I'm a human, I'm a vulcan. Why not just pick one or split it. Hucan or Vulman. He's a Vulman, hear him roar.

And Kirk,...could he...talk much slower? You know what I'd like to see, Kirk playing $25000 Pyramid. "It is...another name...for car." And then his time would be up.

Scotty's clearly insane. He's either screaming or playing with machines. I have an uncle like that. Only leaves the garage twice a year and that's just to yell at my aunt about the price of bread.

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Hot damn, a Star Trek Seinfeld thread. Just as the prophesy foretold.

I mean, what's up with Spock? I'm a human, I'm a vulcan, I'm a human, I'm a vulcan. Why not just pick one or split it. Hucan or Vulman. He's a Vulman, hear him roar.

And Kirk,...could he...talk much slower? You know what I'd like to see, Kirk playing $25000 Pyramid. "It is...another name...for car." And then his time would be up.

Scotty's clearly insane. He's either screaming or playing with machines. I have an uncle like that. Only leaves the garage twice a year and that's just to yell at my aunt about the price of bread.

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