tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 29 09:28:21 1996
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Re: Instruments
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>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 02:34:07 -0700
>From: "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
> With these four, the verbs that they are derived from are not in TKD:-
> (1) chamwI' N technician
> (2) chu'wI' N trigger (chu' V = "he is new")
Also chu' V = "he/she engages/activates a device" (TKD p.83). This would
seem to make "chu'wI'" for trigger/activator/actuator pretty transparent.
(it was once noted that newcomers to the list could be called chu'wI' with
an interesting, if English-centric, ambiguity: either they're new folks, or
"triggers", i.e. sharp young whippersnappers.... or maybe that they trigger
the others to think more. Or something.)
> (3) De'wI' N computer
> (4) HerghwI' N [hypo|pneumatic hypo] (Hergh N = "medicine")
> (1) There is a pop music song containing "... it's not your Durchsprung
>durch Technique you know ...": someone posted a Klingon translation of it
>once; in it (as well as using several verbs unaltered as nouns = "act or
>condition of X'ing") he ventured to invent the word *{cham} N = "technique",
>probably extracted from {chamwI'}.
Consider "mIw."
~mark
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