tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 17 07:58:21 1999
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Re: KLBC
'oghwI' wrote:
: > De'WI'ghom'a' Daq Qapbe'pu'.
: >
: > I used DloraH's word for Internet.
: > This should say something along the lines of:
: > Internet Site is not functioning.
Qapbe' De'wI'ghom'a' Daq.
Remember: OVS word order. Also, a Type 7 aspect suffix isn't really
needed
for this simple statement. If the site is not functioning at the time you
write, the perfective {-pu'} is inappropriate since the state of not
functioning isn't yet completed. You might use {-taH} if the site has
been
out of order for some time and you wanted to emphasize that fact -
{Qapbe'taH} "still not functioning" - but I think it sounds better without
it. Chacun a son gout.
da laffin tlhIngan:
: How about QumDe'wI' (information communicator)? That, at least, shows
: the *intended* function of the Net, qar'a'?
Careful of the order of elements when you're gluing words together:
De' QumwI' information communicator
Qum De'wI' communications computer (used in the BoP poster)
But isn't "information communicator" the function of all computers?
I rather like someone's (I don't remember who) facetious suggestion of
{'evnagh} "subspace". Seriously, I like to get away from "Internet" - an
(inter)national network of local/regional computer networks - since we
don't really have a good word for "network", which is something more
complex than a group {ghom}, and use the term "cyberspace" *{De'logh} (?).
So an Internet site could be *{De'logh Daq}.
We really ought to ask Maltz to explain Klingon computers to us,
considering how dependent we are on them here on a computer mailing list.
He was a science officer, after all, and we all know how much they like to
talk about their computers!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons