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Re: MOST terminology

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: MOST terminology
• Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:27:08 -0500

>I just want to be sure to understand correctly:
>jIH = screen (the device)
>HaSta = what you see on the screen
> > window            jIHHom                small screen
>why not HaStaHom? (small visual display)

As I see it, /jIH/ "monitor" is the device, /HaSta/ "visual display" is what 
you see through a camera (like viewing what's directly in front of your 
space ship, for instance), and /wIy/ "tactical display" is an abstracted 
view of some area, like a map.

People often come up with stretched meanings of /HaSta/, because they want a 
word that means something like "movie" or "graphics," but we don't really 
have such words.

As for "window," we now have /Qorwagh/ "window," and I don't see why you 
can't duplicate the metaphor.  But I am NOT going to get involved in the 
discussion of how to translate common menu commands into Klingon!  There's 
way too much kinda-sorta iffy compromise in there for me to be coming up 
with something "official."

SuStel
Stardate 3991.0

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