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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ngIS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lojmIt tI'wI' nuv)
Mon Mar 19 21:30:01 2012
From: "lojmIt tI'wI' nuv" <lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20120319161722.046148e8@flyingstart.ca>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:29:31 -0400
To: tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
A beach made of sand that explodes when water hits it is at least as bad as=
a cannon lubricant that explodes if sand hits it. I think we have an autho=
r who is trying to be a Klingon McIver, in the manner of Galaxy Quest with =
the line, "Try to fashion a rudimentary lathe..."
lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
lojmIttI7wI7nuv@gmail.com
On Mar 19, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Qov wrote:
> At 15:50 '?????' 3/19/2012, you wrote:
>> Are there any water-based lubricants? Maybe the sand was full of phospho=
rus or sodium.
> =
> A number, but they aren't typically used for disruptor cannons. ghaytan Q=
ongDaq retlhDaq lutu'lu'.
> =
> And it was beach sand, making that bizarrely implausible. Not that bizarr=
ely implausible is in any way a restriction for Star Trek plot devices. Hov=
lengvaD ghu' Dayajchu' DaneHchugh 'oy'choH yablIj.
> =
> - Qov
> =
> =
> =
> =
>> -- ter'eS
>> =
>> --- On Mon, 3/19/12, De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> =
>> From: De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ngIS
>> To: tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
>> Date: Monday, March 19, 2012, 5:09 PM
>> =
>> =
>> Qov:
>> > jabbI'ID per vIleghDI', jIjatlh, "mu' vetlh vIghojbe'." jabbI'ID vIla=
DchoHDI' vIghovbe'bej.
>> > bIqIDbe'bej'a'?
>> =
>> qatlh qIDlu' 'e' DaQub? mu' qID Daghov'a'?
>> =
>> tlhIngan Hol mu'na' 'oH 'e' wISovbejbe'. 'oghbe'law' MO 'ej 'olbe'law'.
>> =
>> It's a DeCandidovian Klingon word, not (yet) an Okrandian Klingon word.
>> =
>> Qov:
>> > Any word on whether this lubricant has its basis in petroleum, graphit=
e, polyfloridated hydrocarbons or animal oils?
>> =
>> From "Honor Bound":
>> "Each grenade was a hollow metal oval, into which they had placed the sa=
nd from the shores of the Prime Village and a small glass bottle containing=
{ngIS} =E2=80=94 a lubricant used on the disruptor cannons, and which the =
{Gorkon} had in plentiful supply. Throwing the grenade with sufficient for=
ce would break the bottle upon impact with a solid surface =E2=80=94 they h=
ad been using B'Oraq's specimen bottles, which were fairly fragile =E2=80=
=94 causing an explosive chemical reaction with one of the minerals in the =
sand."
>> =
>> I'm no chemist, and I don't know what kind of lubricant would react expl=
osively with a mineral found in beach sand. A cannon lubricant that explod=
es under any condition sounds kind of like a bad idea to me.
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