Data about something important vs important data / data which is important Important data: [There is a bomb located at First and Main, set to explode at noon.] This data is important. We know when and where. Data about something important: [That bomb that is about to explode... inside there is a post-it note that says "haha".] The bomb is something important, but this data about it is not necessarily important; but none the less, this is still data... about something that is important. On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 10:49 -0400, nIqolay Q wrote:
I would have said {De' potlh} too, but I don't think there's a significant difference in meaning. I suppose you could argue that information about an important thing might not be important in and of itself, but clearly in this context the information is also important. Maybe it's some kind of idiomatic set phrase.
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Lieven <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
While look at some canon phrases, I stumbled over a phrase from ST5: {yo'SeH yaHnIvvo' potlh De' wIHevtaH.} "We are receiving a priority message from Operations Command."
I would have said {De' potlh} "important data" here.
Is this an error, or is it just not much difference between "important data" and "data about something important"?
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