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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Wed Nov 2 16:59:28 2011
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:59:07 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <CAFK8js31reYg+RNOXvjNd+UfSHUH4-gyso3XPPGvEn9LUvwWLQ@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 11/2/2011 4:55 PM, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Qov<robyn@flyingstart.ca> wrote:
>>> television - HaSta jIH
>>
>> That's weird. HaSta and jIH sort of mean the same thing.
>
> No, they don't.
>
> Consider the first few minutes of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
> {HaSta} is *visual* display, such as what you would get from an
> optical camera. It constrasts with {wIy} *tactical* display, more of
> an abstract schematic view with target blips and labels and such. Both
> {HaSta} and {wIy} are things that can be shown on a {jIH} display
> screen.
>
> {HaSta jIH} is perfect for a television. {wIy jIH} would be more like
> a radar screen or moving map.
Or to put it another way, a jIH is the hardware and a HaSta or wIy is
the content shown.
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