[Tlhingan-hol] Conversational klingon and the use of {nuq}

[Steven Boozer]

As usual Okrand didn't explain the differences between the two, but there *may* be a few hints in Trek:

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. (TNG: "Reunion")

Wesley consulted the Klingon Cultural Database while researching the Rite of Ascension (TNG "The Icarus Factor")

Speculation:  I think both the Imperial Information Net and the Cultural Database probably qualify as [weQmoQmaQ}.  I'd imagine WikiPedia would also be part of the {weQmoQnaQ}.  As for uploading/downloading videos, television episodes and movies or even sending email and texts -- I'm not sure.  

What's the difference in English - or Greek for that matter - between World Wide Web and Internet?

Voragh


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mayqel qunenoS [mailto:mihkoun at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 10:07 AM
> 
> voragh:
> > tlhIngan mu' <<weQmoQnaQ>> DaSov'a'?
> 
> HIja' !
> 
> however, until now, I thought that in tlhIngan Hol, {weQmoQnaQ} and
> {'Internet} are interchangeable.
> 
> I read the article above (thanks !) ; So - and please correct me if I'm
> wrong - one should only use the {weQmoQnaQ} for saying something like "I
> downloaded data from the internet", right ?
> 
> mIHaIl HoD
> 
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mayqel qunenoS [mailto:mihkoun at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2016 5:28 AM
> >>
> >> 'op ben, 'Internetvo' klingonska De' naQ vIlI'ta'. klingonska tamey
> >> vIlI'ta'DI', vIpongta'.
> >
> > tlhIngan mu' <<weQmoQnaQ>> DaSov'a'? :
> >
> > (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.
> >