[Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio

[Felix Malmenbeck]

<De' labmeH 'ej lI'meH yoqtaHbogh/choHtaHbogh 'ul loH jan>, perhaps?

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From: Qov [robyn at flyingstart.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 00:35
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio

At 16:17 '?????' 6/18/2012, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
> > 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.
> jIQochchu'be'. {I don't entirely disagree.} Maybe Qum SeHlaw? It's
> used on the BoP poster to mean "communication console".

It's not the object "a radio" that I want to describe. It's the
concept of communicating through periodic variations in electromagnetic waves.

- Qov

>________________________________________ From: Robyn Stewart
>[robyn at flyingstart.ca] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 23:29 To:
>tlhingan-hol at kli.org Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio
>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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