Klingon word: HablI' Part of speech: noun Definition: data transceiving device Source: TKD _______________________________________________ HablI', Su': labbeH. Ready to transmit. ST3 ("Data transceiving device, attention: prepare to transmit." [ghunchu'wI']) ghunchu'wI': My interpretation of Valkris' line in ST3 as a command to the data-transceiving device ... was confirmed. Apparently the subtitle 'Ready to transmit' is not very good... When I mentioned to Okrand at qep'a' loSDIch that I thought that this was in the form of a 'pet command', he said it was a valid interpretation. ghogh HablI' telephone (n) ghogh HablI' mI' yIper What is the telephone number? (TNK) nav HablI' FAX (machine) (n) (Mark Mandel, IMO HQ 5.2:20): I had been working with Marc Okrand by phone and e-mail during the project [i.e. the Language Lab on the Star Trek: Klingon! CD-ROM], and so I sent him the text of my transliterated Klingon letterhead, asking especially about my word for fax, which at the time was a compound word with no space. He wrote back, approximately, that he liked the idea, but he would prefer to express it as a two-word phrase, {nav HablI'}; and he also suggested the corresponding {ghogh HablI'} for telephone. SEE ALSO: rISwI' transponder, sonar (n) QumwI' communicator (n) rI'meH qul beacon (n) rI'meH wovmoHwI' beacon (n) lab transmit data (away from a place) (v) lI' transmit data (to a place) (v) rIS signal, emit a signal (v) rI' hail (v) Qum communicate (v) tlhuD emit [energy, radiation] (v) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons