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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: baQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Nov 10 10:24:51 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:24:39 -0600
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, November 10, 2011
>
> Klingon word: baQ
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: toss *bat'leth* from one hand to the other
Never used in a sentence.
KGT 59-60: There is an extensive vocabulary for the moves associated with bat'leth use. To thrust or lunge toward one's opponent, for example, is {jop}... To twirl or rotate the bat'leth is {jIrmoH} and to toss it from one hand to the other (the same word is used whether left to right or right to left) is {baQ} ... When teaching someone to use the bat'leth, the tutor will shout out movements--for example, {yIjop! yIway'!} ("Lunge! Defend!"). Generally in such a situation, however, the tutor will used the shortened form of the language known as Clipped Klingon and skip the imperative prefix {yI-}, leaving only the bare verb: {jop! way'!} It is important to note that the tutor is giving the student direct commands ("Lunge! Defend!"), not shouting out the names of movements.
Related verbs include:
{yan} "wield, use or manipulate a sword"
{chuH} "throw (a spear) at, hurl (a spear) at"
{jaD} "throw around, hurl about"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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