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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' vaghmaH Soch:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Oct 19 14:49:03 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org" <tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:48:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CAFK8js3N69mgXH=-iS5TX1FBmoHJas=w2vX=XDBaneAfM7AZpA@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
FYI, the object of {bach} is anything that issues from the weapon:
KGT 56: The verb used for "shoot" when referring to disruptors is {bach}. Technically speaking, one shoots the energy beam from the disruptor. The general word for any energy beam (ray) is {tIH}, so a disruptor's beam is {nISwI' tIH}. Thus, the correct formation is {nISwI' tIH bach} ("shoot the disruptor beam").
pe'vIl mu'qaDmey tIbach
Curse well! (TKW)
TKW 148: The commonly heard sendoff "Curse well!" - roughly comparable in usage to the Federation Standard "Good luck!" - literally means, "Shoot curses forcefully!" Curses are considered a weapon of a sort which must be propelled to their targets.
Colloquially, the object can sometimes be the weapon itself:
KGT 56: As a practical matter, however, the {tIH} is often left out, and {nISwI' bach} is the common way to say "shoot a disruptor". Similarly, {pu' bach} is "shoot a phaser".
But the target, what the weapon shoots at, is always marked by {-Daq}:
logh veQDaq bachchugh, yoH 'e' toblaHbe' SuvwI'
Shooting space garbage is no test of a warrior's
mettle. (ST5 notes)
SuvwI' vI' Dub naQvam 'ej ray' HopDaq bachlu'meH chuqna'
ghurmoH naQvam
This serves to steady the aim of a warrior and increase
the effective range for distance targeting. (S14)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ghunchu'wI' 'utlh
>
>> tlhIngan bach...
>
> bachHa' mu'meyvam. Unless he's planning to fire her from a circus
> cannon?
>
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