[Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio

[Felix Malmenbeck]

Alright, so it seems I interpret the "(radio)" cimment as "Pertaining to radio equipment (subspace or orherwise); not how often something happens." and you take it as "In an interval corresponding roughly to the radio wave spectrum."

I'm guessing we've both seen the pertinent canon, and won't be easy to persuade, but to me, "frequency (used by radio equipment)" makes more sense as an entry in TKD, since subspace radio is actually used a lot in Trek, whereas radio waves don't appear to be.
Also, I think «'evnagh Se'» looks quite strange using your interpretation. There may be historical reasons for it, but my reading gives it as "a radio band frequency (~10^3 to ~10^11 Hz) in subspace". To me, it makes a lot more sense if it means "a frequency used by radio equipment in subspace".

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From: ghunchu'wI' 'utlh [qunchuy at alcaco.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 05:23
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Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm at kth.se> wrote:
> The exact gloss for Se' in TKD is "frequency (radio) (n)". As such, it seems to be a general term for any frequency, not just the radio wave part of the spectrum.

I interpret it in precisely the opposite fashion: it is *explicitly* radio. You might be thinking of {chaDvay'} "frequency (Hertz)".

> Also, in Star Trek, "radio" could also refer to "subspace radio", which probably doesn't work anything like regular radio. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that rI'Se' ("hailing frequency") could never be tapped into using any form of transistor radio.

Subpace radio is always referred to as "subspace radio" {'evnagh Se'} or just as "subspace".

-- ghunchu'wI'

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