[Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio

[Qov]

At 15:49 '?????' 6/18/2012, David Trimboli wrote:
>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'}.

Exactly.  I know I'm not producing the Klingon word for radio. I'm 
just looking for the best way to construct R from existing tools, in 
line with {nIm wIb ngogh} {tera' na'ran wIb} je. By "people" I meant 
tlhIH, not actual Klingons.

- Qov