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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Hovercraft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Sun Jul 9 13:41:07 2017
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From: ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 13:41:02 -0400
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On Jul 8, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Jeremy Silver <jp.silver@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> ...
> We got a new word not too long ago, IIRC from the Air and Space Museum app:
> 'al v float (in/on air)
>
> That would seem to be a perfect substitute for the word "hover", I would
> think.
loQ jIQoch.
I get the impression that {'al} is not right for powered flight like a helicopter or hummingbird. I would use it for a hot-air or helium balloon, a blimp, or a dirigible.
On the other hand, a hovercraft doesn't actually hover. It floats *on* a partially-contained volume of pressurized air, but not *in* air as I understand {'al} to mean.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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