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Re: Klingon WOTD: nech (verb)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Tue Apr 29 18:01:01 2008

In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20080429094748.02722b50@imap.uchicago.edu>
From: Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:59:21 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org

On Apr 29, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> What I was thinking was a motion which ghunchu'wI' himself  
> mentioned in an
> old post about the wing baffles {tel vID'Irmey} on the BoP
> Poster:  "They're specifically the multiple interleaved 'plates' at  
> the
> hinged area which slide past one another as the wing changes  
> orientation
> between attack, cruise, and landing configuration."

{nech} "be lateral" is about direction.  You seem to want a word for  
the *manner* of motion.

{nech} is totally the wrong direction for the wing baffles anyway.   
Both {chong} "be vertical" and {Don} "be parallel" describe them better.



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