tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 01 12:30:56 2002
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Re: mu'mey chu' vItIv
ja'pu' peHruS:
>tetlh is a list, chem refers to grid cells.
ja' SuStel:
>Thanks to /peQ chem/ using /chem/ as a separate word, if someone uses /chem/
>in a way not already established by Okrand, I'm not going to bat an eyelash.
>Do you REALLY doubt that it means "field"?
It obviously means "field" in the way physicists (or at least Trek
scientists) use the term. In real life, it's a measureable attribute of a
region of space where each point has a vector value associated with it,
defining a magnitude and direction of the field's strength. Moving
electrons create a magnetic field; electric charge or time-varying
magnetism creates an electric field. Flowing water can have a "velocity
field". We have a Klingon word for gravity; I'd accept {tlham chem}
without even considering that it might be wrong.
It does NOT obviously mean the same thing as {DaH} but in more dimensions,
which is what I think peHruS is going for.
Will: > And I'm really mystified as to how you got it to mean "grid cells".
SuStel: > As am I.
I've stopped scratching my head about *how* his bizarre twists of meaning
come about, and now I just wonder *why*.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh