tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 18 14:20:39 1999
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RE: KLBC: jajwIj
: jatlh qonwI':
: > patmey DISughta' boQwI'pu' jIH je.
:
: <Sugh> is "install in office", which I suspect is basically what the Chief
: Justice of the US does to the new President.
Or in more Klingon terms, what Arbiter of Succession {cho' 'oDwI'} Jean-Luc
Picard did to Gowron, whom he had just named Leader of the High Council
{yejquv
DevwI'}, i.e. chancellor {Qang}.
: > lo'wI'pu' teywI'mey DIQayta'.
:
: <teywI'> means "file", in the sense of a metal tool. See <tey> - "scrape". I
: am quite certain it cannot be used to refer to a data file. You could just
: use plain old <De'>, though.
Or even better, use {ta} "a record, file", as used by Okrand:
ghotpu' tamey personnel files
may' ta record of battle
tamey ngo' archives
and others here on the list:
*bom ta music recording/cassette/CD
*De' ta data file (diskette, CD, data solid, isolinear chip/rod)
*ghogh ta voice recording, audiocassette, sound file
*HaSta ta video recording, videotape
*tojbogh ta hologram
In context with {De'wI'} and {SoSbor'a'}, {ta} alone would be perfectly clear,
unless you're talking about both paper and electronic files together. (Do
they
still even use paper files and dossiers in the 24th century?)
: pagh
: Beginners' Grammarian
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons