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.


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.



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>On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 10:31?PM James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol <
>tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
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>> Then there's the Dany headphone manufacturer. I discovered the name when
>> I was trying to figure out the etymology/pun behind *DannI'* (which was my
>> chabal tetlh request, BTW). Maybe that's it, maybe that's not it, but I
>> can't imagine what else it would be.
>>
>
>It looks like the name "Danny". There are a number of words which are just
>named after people in Marc Okrand's personal life, and this may be one of
>them. Since Marc Okrand worked in captioning and movies, he probably knew
>many people who were always wearing headphones, and perhaps one of them was
>named "Danny". (IMDB does indeed show that he worked with a number of
>people named "Danny" or "Daniel" on the Star Trek movies.) Or perhaps an
>actor named Danny or playing a character named Danny wore headphones in a
>movie scene that's particularly memorable for Okrand. (I can't think of
>one, but I'm not a movie buff like he is.) I think those scenarios are more
>likely than an obscure headphone manufacturer, but unless Okrand tells us,
>we can only guess.