tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 11 14:32:05 1998
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Re: KBLC [K'ryntes]
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KBLC [K'ryntes]
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:30:49 -0600 (CST)
: K'ryntes wrote:
: }Am I on the right track with grammar?
: } The officer shot himself by accident.
: } bong bach'egh yaS
:
: I delayed answering this whole message because I can't remember whether the
: object of {bach} is the target or the projectile, and I'm not as organized
: as the people with the computer programs ho will follow up and tell me if
: I'm wrong when I tell you that you're right. You have the subject verb and
: adverb in the right place and have correctly used the {'egh} suffix. majQa'.
That's my cue, I guess. Here's what I have:
{bach} shoot (v) (cf. baH)
"Verb, to fire a projectile weapon at." (MSN)
"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).
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." (KGT:56)
Other attestations:
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. (SkyBox S14)
pe'vIl mu'qaDmey tIbach
Curse well! (TKW)
["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." (TKW:148)]
So, the object of {bach} is the projectile, beam, etc. not the target. {baH}
"shoot (torpedoes)" seems to work the same way.
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