[89508] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Listening device
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Sep 8 12:52:51 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:36:42 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CAFK8js2kZZ6qnZvgvxB-bSwHz0eBYJhc61vtVPrcn83YnTcGrg@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
ghunchu'wI':
> I'd call them {jIHwI'} ({jIH} "monitor (v)" + {-wI'} "thing which does").
> It occurs to me that the consensus understanding of the noun
> {jIH} "monitor" as a display device might be wrong, and it might refer
> to the sensing/sending device instead.
Wouldn't that component be a {HablI'} "data transceiving device". We know of four different types: the voice-activated {HablI'} that Valkris used to transmit the stolen Genesis Device files (ST3), {ghogh HablI'} telephone (HQ 5.2), {nav HablI'} FAX machine (HQ 5.2), and {'evnagh Se' HablI'} subspace radio (KBoP).
BTW we have an example referring to the covert monitoring of someone else's communications. Vixis tells Capt. Klaa that:
DIvI' Se' wI'IjtaHvIS DaH ngoqDe' wIHevta'
We've just received an encoded message on the Federation frequency. (ST5 notes)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
