tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 24 17:29:12 1996
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{lab} and {lI'} (was Re: Memory trick)
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: {lab} and {lI'} (was Re: Memory trick)
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 19:31:54 -0500
charghwI' writes:
>It just occurred to me, in trying to remember the difference
>between {lab} and {lI'}, think of a message as if it were a
>football. To send it, you {lab} [lob]. To receive it, you begin
>to say that you are "listening" but before you get to the "s"
>sound, you get hit in the belly with a Johnny Unitus bee-line
>pass. {lI'}.
I don't get it.
{lab} is glossed as "transmit data (away from a place)" and
{lI'} is "transmit data (to a place)"; neither of them appears
to mean "receive data". If the meanings given in TKD are what
we should go by, I think {lab} would refer to broadcasting, and
{lI'} to point-to-point communication. I don't think that the
gloss in TKD is an error; it's consistent between sides of the
dictionary.
In the football analogy, I'd choose {lab} to describe simply
throwing away the ball to avoid being sacked, and I'd say {lI'}
if the quarterback aims for a specific receiver.
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