[89511] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Listening device
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Thu Sep 8 13:16:56 2011
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:09:15 -0700
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
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At 08:25 08/09/2011, you wrote:
>I don't know if TFR actually named the ubiquitous surveillance
>devices. The "Internal Intelligence" agency using them was mentioned
>many times, though.
>
>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.
I would love that. It's always bugged me as too coinicidental that
the same verb became the same noun in Klingon and English.
