<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpc75c131ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The name Danny was actually the first thing that came to my mind, but when I googled "Danny headphones" all I saw were references to the Dany brand.</div><div class="ydpc75c131ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydpc75c131ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydpc75c131ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It didn't occur to me that *DannI'* could be an in-joke about headphones and a Danny whom Marc Okrand knew personally, but if we have *yelneHSIQ* as the word for "vanadium", despite Chris Henley having nothing to do with vanadium, then that's a possibility.</div><div class="ydpc75c131ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydpc75c131ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div class="ydpc75c131ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div class="ydpc75c131ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">>Message: 2<br></div><div id="ydp66858902yahoo_quoted_7622901434" class="ydp66858902yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr">>Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:23:54 +0100<br></div><div dir="ltr">>From: "De'vID" <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>To: <a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@kli.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@kli.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv<br></div><div dir="ltr">>Message-ID:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <CA+7zAmPWZS51X4piYhK-eKca5zY2Vo+N8s2MrVfgCdrw_hU0dw@mail.gmail.com><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 10:31?PM James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol <<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">>tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> Then there's the Dany headphone manufacturer. I discovered the name when<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> I was trying to figure out the etymology/pun behind *DannI'* (which was my<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> chabal tetlh request, BTW). Maybe that's it, maybe that's not it, but I<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> can't imagine what else it would be.<br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>It looks like the name "Danny". There are a number of words which are just<br></div><div dir="ltr">>named after people in Marc Okrand's personal life, and this may be one of<br></div><div dir="ltr">>them. Since Marc Okrand worked in captioning and movies, he probably knew<br></div><div dir="ltr">>many people who were always wearing headphones, and perhaps one of them was<br></div><div dir="ltr">>named "Danny". (IMDB does indeed show that he worked with a number of<br></div><div dir="ltr">>people named "Danny" or "Daniel" on the Star Trek movies.) Or perhaps an<br></div><div dir="ltr">>actor named Danny or playing a character named Danny wore headphones in a<br></div><div dir="ltr">>movie scene that's particularly memorable for Okrand. (I can't think of<br></div><div dir="ltr">>one, but I'm not a movie buff like he is.) I think those scenarios are more<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">>likely than an obscure headphone manufacturer, but unless Okrand tells us,<br></div><div dir="ltr">>we can only guess.<br></div><br></div>
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