[Tlhingan-hol] new word

[Tad Stauffer]

I think the main pun/gag here is that the English abbreviation "www" can be
translated as "QQQ", if we use the last (rather than first) letter of each
syllable in weQmoQnaQ.

-Tad


On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Michael Roney, Jr. PKT <nahqun at gmail.com>wrote:

>  wmn.tlhHy.tlh
>
> ~naHQun
>
> ~Michael Roney, Jr.
> Professional Klingon translator
> webOS developer
>
> -- Sent from my "Franken" Palm Pre 2
>
> ------------------------------
> On Nov 18, 2012 16:42, Klingonteacher <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Marc Okrand gave us one new word, which was revealed at the qepHom last
> weekend:
> ------------
> Maltz said that the primitive computer systems used by Terrans are very
> different from the superior systems used by Klingons, but there is some
> overlap. He was going to give this more thought also, but he did say
> that the closest thing to "World Wide Web" is {weQmoQnaQ}.
> ------------
>
> I asked Marc Okrand - just to be sure - if this is the same as the
> internet, or if we could even call that *'Internet*, and this was his
> answer:
>
> -----
> I checked with Maltz.
>
> He's fuzzy about Terran computer technology and computer terms, but he
> said that {weQmoQnaQ} is not the same thing as the Internet. He said,
> if he understands correctly, you can do many more things with the
> Internet than just dealing with the {weQmoQnaQ}. But he stopped there,
> so I'll have to bother him again to find out about these other things.
>
> I also asked him about the word *'Internet*. He said he thought that it
> was pretty funny that Terrans use that word. He laughed a little bit,
> as if there were some sort of a joke. But he didn't elaborate. I guess
> that's for another time.
> -----
>
> Does anyone see the pun? It took me some time, but I'm not a native
> english speaker.
>
> --
> Lieven L. Litaer
> aka Quvar valer 'utlh
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