tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 17 18:59:24 2000
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Re: VOCAB question: engineering, departments, universities, courses
> DevID wrote:
...
> : "Information" vs. "Data"
> : Besides {De'}, what other words can be used to describe
> : "information" and "data"? I wish to distinguish between the
> : two meanings. For a {ngong} "experiment", I can have both
> : information (about the experiment) and data (obtained from
> : the experiment).
Steven Boozer:
> Don't try to force an English distinction - one that I don't see - onto
> the Klingon.
I think the distinction is between the description of the experiment (the
why and the how) and its results (what happened). The latter is properly
the data/information, the former should use another word (description,
experimental setup, whatever).
I think this is more a case of poorly-chosen words in English than forcing
a trivial distinction.
Jiri
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You know you've been hacking too long when ...
... reading a book you notice the word "From" at the beginning of a line.