tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 29 03:38:43 1996
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Re: Checking the time
- From: "Lord Havelock Sinister" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Checking the time
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 11:35:51 GMT
- Organization: North East Wales Institute
- Priority: normal
- Return-Receipt-To: "Lord Havelock Sinister" <[email protected]>
ghItlhta' [email protected]:
> I was just watching an old Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Picard
> asks the computer the time. Specifically, he says "Time." The computer
> responds. Now, between Klingons, telling one that your chronometer is broken
> and expecting the other to tell you the time is all very well and good, but
> trying to do this with a computer smacks of idiom. Say a Klingon was alone
> in a room which had a computer terminal. How would he find out what time it
> is?
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Alex
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