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Re: Klingon WOTD: nech (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Mon Apr 28 18:20:34 2008
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From: Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:19:08 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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>> Klingon word: nech
>> Part of Speech: verb
>> Definition: be lateral, move laterally
On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Can {nech} also cover "move side-to-side", "move horizontally",
> "slide"?
It obviously covers the first two; "laterally" *means* to or from the
side.
However, I don't see where "slide" fits here. Most things that slide
in my house move front-to-back, not side-to-side, and most things
that I see sliding outside my house do it by moving diagonally downward.
