tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 03 06:49:55 1996
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Re: tlhIngan Hol chu' ghojwI'. jIH ghaj pung.
- From: dpNoll <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: tlhIngan Hol chu' ghojwI'. jIH ghaj pung.
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 23:49:54 +1000
ghItlh Mitchel Ross:
[...]
> I had a hard time
> with "computer user". A computer is that which uses data, and a
> user is that which uses a computer. I really wanted to use
> "De'wI'wI'", which is jibberish. Comments?
I'm not a 'professional', in fact far from it, so I'll probably get
castrated for commenting here, but here it goes:
I don't think you can construe *De'wI'* to be a word meaning "thing which
uses data", as so far as we know, *De'* is only a noun and the *wI'* suffix
meaning "thing which does" is only used on verbs. I think that the word
for "computer" is the only example of this construct, so it can't really be
generalised.
For a "computer user", you could have a "user of computers", so perhaps
{De'wI' lo'wI'} would be a more appropriate construct for your purpose.
Qapla'
voqHa'wI' (pIj tlhIngan Hol pongwIj vIlo'be'}
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