[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: weQmoQnaQ

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 02, 2015
> 
> Klingon word: weQmoQnaQ
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: world wide web, www
> Source:

Source:  qepHom'a' wa'maH wa'DIch [11/2012]

MO, qepHom 2012 [via De'vID 11/22/2012]):

  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 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.

AFAIK it's never been used in a sentence by Okrand.

PUN: 1) "whole ball of wax"? (Qov)
     2) WMN (Wireless Mesh Network)?

Any ideas why Maltz thought the word "Internet" was funny?


TREK TRIVIA:

The Klingon Imperial Information Net is the main database of information for the Klingon Empire, including biographical records and the public records of the High Council. Shortly before her death in 2387, Ambassador K'Ehleyr was denied access to files on the Net (via a [subspace?] interlock from the Enterprise-D) relating to the High Council's inquiries into the Khitomer Massacre because Council Member Duras had restricted the files to *du-ko-cha* clearance or higher; K'Ehleyr's own clearance of *pah-doQ-cha* was insufficient to gain access. (TNG: "Reunion")

Wesley consulted the Klingon Cultural Database - part of the Imperial Information Net? - while researching the Rite of Ascension. (TNG "The Icarus Factor")


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons