tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 25 23:19:50 2001
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RE: KLBC: jIbergh
Se' lI'wI'
That should mean "radio wave receiver". Literally it is a thing which
"transmits data to a place", but from usage, we can tell this means
"download" or "receive". It's a small stretch to consider sound to be data.
The other verb is {lab}, which means to upload or send, which Okrand glosses
as "transmit data from a place". Basically, the "place" in both definitions
is the place where the device is sitting. By this logic, to receive is to
transmit to a place. To transmit from a place is to send.
This is probably clear as mud, but the usage is in ST3, the third movie,
Search for Spock.
Besides, {lab} makes too good of a pun with "lob", to toss something at
someone.
charghwI'
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> > : We have a couple verbs "transmit", we have "transceiving device", but
> > : we don't have just a (radio wave) receiving device.
> >
> > From ST3 we have {HablI'} "data transceiving device":
> >
> > HablI', Su': labbeH. (punctuation uncertain)
> > Ready to transmit. ST3
> >
> > Other types of {HablI'} are {ghogh HablI'} "telephone" (i.e. "voice data
> > transceiving device" [HQ 5.2]), {nav HablI'} "FAX machine"
> (i.e. "paper data
> > transceiving device" [HQ 5.2]) and {'evnagh Se' HablI'} "subspace radio"
>
> And I mention this in my sentence at top.
> A transceiver transmits and receives. My TV only receives.
> In klingon we have transmitters, transceivers, but not receivers.
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> DloraH
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