tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 23 07:09:45 1996
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Re: Wired magazine
- From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Wired magazine
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 07:09:45 -0700
SuStel wrote:
>
> One other interesting thing: on the cover of the magazine, there is some
> writing in Klingon, using the KLI pIqaD, which says "yIHujqu'". I wonder
> which meaning of {Hur} they were referring to. And while I'm at it, just who
> gave them that word and the appropriate pIqaD font?
I confess. I did. But then, it says so in very tiny print on the inside of the
magazines first non-advertisement page. <<Huj>> actually seemed a good fit
because as most of you know it can mean "be strange" or "charge (up)" and
likewise the term "wired" has multiple meanings: certainly someone who is
*wired* is acting strange, and if a device is wired it can be *charged* and so
forth. The imperative prefix was used because they said they wanted something
like "Get Wired!" and the emphatic suffix was added to round the whole thing
out.
Lawrence
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