tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 01 15:53:42 2004
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Re: more vector questions
- From: "De'vID jonwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: more vector questions
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:52:57 -0500
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De'vID:
>>I'm also looking for a word for "acceleration". We do have <chung>
>>"accelerate", but I'm looking for a noun. i.e. <ghoS> is to <Do> as
>><chung> is to...? Suggestions?
qon Voragh:
>{chung} is all we have, so if you must have a technical noun I think this
>is a good place to use {-ghach}. If you wanted to you could even have
>slightly different nouns: *{ghungtaHghach} "constant acceleration" vs.
>{ghunglI'ghach} "acceleration (up to a pre-determined point?)". (N.B. just
>don't attach {ghach} to the bare verb stem.)
I ended up using <chungtaHghach>, but it's not entirely satisfactory
to me. Acceleration being such an important concept for space
travel, surely it is a common concept among a space-faring race such
as the Klingons. Are there no examples in canon where someone talks
about accelerating the ship? I guess in <Hov leng> all they do is
give the final speed/warp factor they desire without explaining how
it got there!
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De'vID
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