tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 08 18:10:26 1995
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Re: KLBC: Win 95 "Klingon-ized"
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Win 95 "Klingon-ized"
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 21:11:02 -0500
HoS'etlh writes:
>My Computer => tlhIngan wo' qawHaqmey (Imperial Klingon Data Banks)
{qawHaq} "memory banks" is already "plural" and doesn't need {-mey}.
>Exchange => QumwI' (Communications)
This is "communicator"; it's the device, not the activity.
>Recycle Bin => veQlan (garbage place)
It works, but it seems a bit tame to me.
>Send a Fax => 'evnagh QumwI' (subspace communications)
"Fax" is short for "facsimile", so I'd try to use the word {navqoq}.
Again, {QumwI'} is "communicator", not "communications".
>The floor is open for comments.
>
>Also, is there a word for "network" in tlhIngan Hol?
{De'wI'mey rarbogh pat'e'}, or {De'wI'mey rarwI'}?
>PS I hope that this message is in a readable form, without the usual veQ
>that has been appearing on some of my other posts.
qa' mIghHa' vIvemmoHmeH loQ Sur vIHIv.
This is what I came up with for "knock wood". :-) Idioms don't translate!
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj