tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 19 07:41:49 1996
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RE: RE: KLBC?: De'wI' mughghachmey (Computer Translations)
- From: "Joel Anderson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: RE: KLBC?: De'wI' mughghachmey (Computer Translations)
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 07:41:46 -0700
>
>Of course, /ghItlhwI'/ means "thing which prints" as much as it means "one
>who prints." For clarity, my first impulse would have been /ghItlhbogh
>jan/, but I like the terseness of /ghItlhwI'/. Sort of parallels /So'wI'/:
>do you think of the officer whose job it is to through the cloaking device
>switch, or the cloaking device itself?
It was not so many years ago that "computer" did not refer to a
machine but a person who computed. AND was it that long ago
that a "printer" was a guy who worked at the newspaper?
joel anderson * [email protected] * [email protected]
mIghghachvo' yImej 'ej yIQaQ; roj yInej 'ej Dochvam yItlha'
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