tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 18 20:23:16 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <[email protected]> wrote:
> The exact gloss for Se' in TKD is "frequency (radio) (n)". As such, it seems to be a general term for any frequency, not just the radio wave part of the spectrum.
I interpret it in precisely the opposite fashion: it is *explicitly* radio. You might be thinking of {chaDvay'} "frequency (Hertz)".
> Also, in Star Trek, "radio" could also refer to "subspace radio", which probably doesn't work anything like regular radio. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that rI'Se' ("hailing frequency") could never be tapped into using any form of transistor radio.
Subpace radio is always referred to as "subspace radio" {'evnagh Se'} or just as "subspace".
-- ghunchu'wI'
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