[93790] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Qov)
Mon Jun 18 18:10:12 2012
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:07:09 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
From: Qov <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4FDFA24E.2000709@trimboli.name>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
At 15:49 '?????' 6/18/2012, David Trimboli wrote:
>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'}.
Exactly. I know I'm not producing the Klingon word for radio. I'm
just looking for the best way to construct R from existing tools, in
line with {nIm wIb ngogh} {tera' na'ran wIb} je. By "people" I meant
tlhIH, not actual Klingons.
- Qov
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