tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 19 13:51:33 1996
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Re: KLBC?: De'wI' mughghachmey [sic]
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>Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 10:03:20 -0700
>From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
>> <cloaking device> Hechba' <So'wI'>- wa' Doch 'oSchu'.
>ghobe', jIQoch. Okay, think of /baHwI'/. Is it the officer whose job it
>is to fire the weapon, or the weapon? We have /baHwI'/ referring to a
>person, and /So'wI'/ referring to the device. Either could be interpreted
>in both ways, we just have accepted interpretations of them from TKD. So,
>/ghItlhwI'/ is ambiguous; so what?
Don't we talk about a book (like, oh, say, Hamlet) coming back from the
printer's? And Lawrence might have spoken to the printer about Hamlet and
the printer might say it would be ready soon... This doesn't mean Lawrence
has gotten a really good rapport with machinery! As Holtej points out,
Klingon seems to have the same ambiguity as English does (we have canon for
it, and the definitions of -wI' also suggest it), and nobody seems to
complain too much that English has to be changed....
As has been pointed out, a "computer" used to be a geeky guy with a slide
rule. And a typewriter was a woman (usually) who worked with a device with
lots of keys (leading to some dated jokes about letters saying "Dearest:
the business has failed. I have been forced to close down and sell all the
furniture in the office, and I write this letter with the typewriter on my
lap.")
~mark
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