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Re: "Button"?

MorphemeAddict ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol taghwI']



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In a message dated 3/28/2005 3:58:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


>    For one form of {SusDeq}, the {may'ron}, the player stretches the
>    bag out to fill it with air and squeezes it together to empty it
>    while directing the flow of air by pressing buttons mounted on
>    boards on either end of the bag, much like an accordion. To finger
>    the {may'ron}--that is, to push the buttons--is to {Heng}, the same
>    word applied to the {meSchuS}.  (KGT 75-76)
> 
> No indication as to whether {Heng} can be used for pressing buttons on a 
> control panel or not.  It would probably work ironically for someone 
> pressing many switches in rapid succession -- e.g. someone so good at their 
> job that s/he's able to "play" the control panel with their eyes closed.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Voragh
> 

I think it could also be used for typing on a keyboard.  

lay'tel SIvten






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