[93789] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Jun 18 17:49:19 2012
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:49:02 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20120618150016.06ba0f48@flyingstart.ca>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 6/18/2012 5:07 PM, Qov wrote:
>
> I need to describe a regular old radio transmitter, in terms people will
> understand.
>
> 'ul yu'egh QumwI'
>
> 'ul chaDvay labwI'
>
> QumwI' cham tIQ (it is from the perspective of people who use 'evnagh)
>
> nuq bochup? nuq bomaS?
Uhura: "I think they used to call it 'video.'"
Spock: "'Television' was the colloquial term.'"
What you're really looking for is the Klingon term for "radio part of
the electromagnetic spectrum," and we just don't have that. If that word
were R, you could say {R QumwI'}.
--
SuStel
http://www.trimboli.name/
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