[Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio

[Robyn Stewart]

At 15:21 '?????' 6/18/2012, you wrote:
>I remember in an interview with Boise State Public Radio, Marc used 
><Qum pat> (or maybe it was <Qumpat>) to refer to "radio". He sounded 
>uncertain, but it makes sense to me.

That works fine in that context, radio as an 
entertainment/information medium, while in communication with people 
who use it every day.  But a shipboard intercom, subspace radio, and 
people running around carrying scrolls would all be described by Qum 
pat, too. It's like "defense system" works fine to describe moats, 
ramparts and pike bearers in 1200 AD, but if you say it today you 
envision, tanks and soldiers, or a biological immune response, or 
maybe a pit of venomous snakes.

I need to be more specific.

>  'ul yu'egh Qumpat ________________________________________ From: 
> Qov [robyn at flyingstart.ca] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 23:07 To: 
> tlhingan-hol at kli.org Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio I 
> need to describe a regular old radio transmitter, in terms people 
> will understand. 'ul yu'egh QumwI' 'ul chaDvay labwI' QumwI' cham 
> tIQ (it is from the perspective of people who use 'evnagh) nuq 
> bochup? nuq bomaS? - Qov 
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