tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 07 13:22:20 1994
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{lab} & {lI'}
ghItlh Qanqor:
>What you end up claiming (in the followup post which I did not quote
>from) is that lab is to transmit data and lI' is to receive it.
>This doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. Hev is to receive,
>including data (used as such in ST5, reluctant though I am to rely
>on that particular source for too much). I'm sorry, but I can't
>find any way to read the words "transmit data (to a place)" as
>meaning "to receive data". They are just NOT the same thing at all.
jatlh je Qanqor <HIvqa' veqlargh>
You forgot to change the subject header. It was originally <Re: KLBC:
qajatlh>. See?! It happens to all of us!
Anyways, in my mind {lab} is what someone does when they sit at a terminal
and activate some operation that 'uploads' a file. {lI'} is what one does
whenever there is a specific location involved. Usually that location would
probably be {naDev}, as in "download" to here, to my terminal.
When considering {lI'} and {lab}, keep in mind the parallel between this pair
and the pair {jol} and {Qol}. {jol} means "beam up/aboard", while {Qol} means
"beam away" with no real location in mind.
What I'm wondering is, what if the location is somewhere other than here.
What if I want to say "Transport it to the surface". {jol} might not cut it,
since it really means "beam *up*" and {Qol} implies that the destination is
unimportant. Would {Qol} possibly be appropriate, or would you have to use
{jolHa'}?
{ghorDaq yIjolHa'} / {ghorDaq yIQol} (???)
And about those subject headers: If it keeps up, Dobelbower's likely to
charge up the phasers on the {lIy So'}, if that's what it takes to enforce
the rules.
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