[[ [2013-10-27] added document Type: email Date: 18 November 2012 Title: [Tlhingan-hol] new word Author: Lieven L. Litaer (reposting part of an email from Marc Okrand) Summary: A new word – {weQmoQnaQ} ~World Wide Web~ – is given. ]] Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:41:55 +0100 From: Klingonteacher To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" X-Spam_bar: / Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] new word 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 http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher _______________________________________________ Tlhingan-hol mailing list Tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org http://stodi.digitalkingdom.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol [[eof]]