[Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio

David Trimboli david at trimboli.name
Mon Jun 18 14:49:02 PDT 2012


On 6/18/2012 5:07 PM, Qov wrote:
>
> 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?

Uhura: "I think they used to call it 'video.'"
Spock: "'Television' was the colloquial term.'"

What you're really looking for is the Klingon term for "radio part of 
the electromagnetic spectrum," and we just don't have that. If that word 
were R, you could say {R QumwI'}.

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SuStel
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