[Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping

[David Trimboli]

On 11/2/2011 4:55 PM, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Qov<robyn at flyingstart.ca>  wrote:
>>> television - HaSta jIH
>>
>> That's weird.  HaSta and jIH sort of mean the same thing.
>
> No, they don't.
>
> Consider the first few minutes of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
> {HaSta} is *visual* display, such as what you would get from an
> optical camera. It constrasts with {wIy} *tactical* display, more of
> an abstract schematic view with target blips and labels and such. Both
> {HaSta} and {wIy} are things that can be shown on a {jIH} display
> screen.
>
> {HaSta jIH} is perfect for a television. {wIy jIH} would be more like
> a radar screen or moving map.

Or to put it another way, a jIH is the hardware and a HaSta or wIy is 
the content shown.

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