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Re: Klingon WOTD: De'wI' (noun)

Alan Anderson ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']



ja' Voragh:
> Captain Krankor has speculated that {De'wI'} is the nomen agentis  
> from an  Old Klingon verb *{De'} "compute".

I, on the other hand, think it's more likely that the unseen verb  
would mean something more like "process information".  The term  
"computer" is very nearly an accident of history; modern computers do  
very little of what would be labeled "calculating" and do a lot of  
general information processing: email, database searches, instant  
messaging, etc.

-- ghunchu'wI'





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