tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 15 21:09:39 2007
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Re: Klingon WOTD: De'wI' (noun)
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'