tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 30 20:18:25 1997
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Re: KLBC: Questions & Announcement
On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
|German netizens handle this in two ways:
|1. Some treat "web site" as a new concept and simply borrow the English
| word.
|2. Others, who are more conservative when it comes to borrowing English
| terms, either refer to their "Seiten" (pages) or their "Server"
| (server; a well-established borrowing), depending on what's applicable.
| [snip]
|Thaddaeus proposed {HaSta}, "visual display". The English translation
|is ambiguous, does {HaSta} refer to (1) what is displayed or to (2) the
|device doing the displaying?
We know now from the ST:Continuum KLingon Linguistic Studies area on MSN
that the answer is (2).
Klingon: HaSta
English: Visual display
Phonetically -- "hash-TAAH"
Small display terminal capable of showing video, images and text.
The same is true for {wIy}:
Klingon: wIy
English: Tactical display
Phonetically -- "wee"
Viewing terminal showing the defensive and offensive status of a space vessel.
Another related term is {jIH} "monitor (device), viewing screen," though
Okrand has not featured this word on MSN yet.
This leaves us (once again) with no useful way to refer to an "image" or a
"picture".
-- Voragh