tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 12 06:22:59 1998
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Re: bach WAS: Re: KBLC [K'ryntes]
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: bach WAS: Re: KBLC [K'ryntes]
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:22:11 -0500
From: Qermaq <[email protected]>
>>{bach} shoot (v) (cf. baH)
>>"Verb, to fire a projectile weapon at." (MSN)
>>
>>Thus, the correct formation is "nISwI' tIH bach} (shoot the disruptor
>beam)....Similarly, {pu' >bach} is shoot a phaser." (KGT:56)
>
>Is it just me, or is this contradictory? We know MO wrote the definitions
>for MSN, so that would make it seem that the object of <bach> is the
target.
>But his KGT examples use the chosen weapon's beam, not the target, as the
>object.
No, Okrand only wrote one-word definitions for MSN. Someone there modified
those definitions, occasionally with poor results, such as the one above.
The correct object for {bach} is the projectile or beam.
SuStel
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