tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 27 19:16:12 1995
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Re: (n) orbit?
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: (n) orbit?
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 22:16:09 EST
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Alan Anderson" at Jan 25, 95 7:06 am
According to Alan Anderson:
>
> I've been following the {bav} as noun discussion...
> {Don} = (v) parallel, be parallel, go parallel to
> {HeDon} = (n) parallel course
> {He} = (n) course, route
...
> {bav} = (v) orbit
> I suggest we consider the possibility that
> {Hebav} = (n) orbital course or path ** proposed new word
After Okrand approves it, I'd be glad to use this word. Of
course, access to the man is limited, since he is quite busy,
and there's already a number of other answers we'd like to get
from him, but the man does answer us over time. We did finally
get {-ghach} explained to us with a useful level of detail,
after all...
Still, this is a noun-verb combination, and Okrand can do that.
The rest of us can't. As this kind of illegal word combination
goes, this sounds like a more reasonable one, but again, it is
one Okrand needs to approve.
> I'm proposing a newly _discovered_ word, of course, not a newly _invented_ one! :-)
Only Okrand can discover. We can only invent, and even then,
only by the noun-noun construction rules given in TKD, and even
then, we rarely come up with words that don't make most of us
wince.
> If we stretch just a little, we might try to use {bav} as an adjective.
> {bav} = (v) orbit, be an orbit ** proposed extension to definition
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww! pay' 'oH yIHoH! yIH rur 'oH!
> Then {He bav} would do just fine without needing an entirely new word.
But then, {bav} would BE an entirely new word. What you want is
{bavbogh He}. The object of {bav} would then be the thing the
path orbits. Of course, then you are building towards a very
English sounding {tera' bavbogh He'e' vIghoS} instead of much
simpler, concise and direct {tera' vIbav.}
> nuq bIQub?
.......
> -- ghunchu'wI'
>
>
charghwI'
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