tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 09 13:14:55 1996
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Re: Still wondering about botjan
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Still wondering about botjan
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:13:32 -0600 (CST)
12/9/96 ghItlh SuSvaj:
>I did not intend to limit my earlier question about the use of *botjan*
>only to the grammarians. I would apreciate any insight my fellow warriors
>could provide. The question, again is whether botjan refers only to a
>starships shields, or is it also plural for the hand held shield?
Marc Okrand in the KCD audio says that botjan refers to the shields of a
ship, not a physical shield such as a warrior might carry into combat. For
that you would use *yoD*. botjan can be derived from bot "prevent, block,
prohibit" + jan "device, model" and probably refers to the "shield
generator" itself, since it is activated: cf. botjan yIchu' Raise shields! (KCD)
Other words for electromagnetic fields and the like include:
begh "deflectors"
HoSchem "energy field"
peQ chem "magnetic field"
Surchem "force field"
Voragh