[88381] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: latlh mu' chu'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Dec 6 11:37:37 2010
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:29:49 -0600
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E87710A6BE05@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
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Voragh:
>> It sounds as if Okrand thought {nagh beQ} would do for any sort
>> of picture/image and didn't understand why people were
>> uncomfortable with it.
Felix:
>Indeed, while I've always felt that it's strange to refer to a
>computerized image as a {nagh beQ}, I suppose it's really not much
>stranger than referring to a digital movie as a "film", or to a plastic
>table covering as a "tablecloth".
Or digital recordings as being "on tape". This may well have been Okrand's thinking for the primitive sounding "flat stone".
> Also, while I'm not a computer
>expert, I'm pretty certain that not all storage disks are disk-shaped.
IIRC in Trek files were stored on 2 x 2 inch "data solids" (TOS) or those 1 x 3 inch plastic "isolinear chips" (TNG; the Cardasians used "isolinear rods" about the size of a cigarette [DS9]).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
