tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 15 10:00:07 1997
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RE: KLBC: Uselessness & Aiming
ja' SuStel:
>> I also tried translating Captain Sulu's line: "Target that explosion and
>> fire"
>> into Klingon and came up with:
>>
>> jorwI' yIQeq 'e' yIbaH
>>
>> I am not sure if I used the correct
>
>In Power Klingon, we get the sentence {'otlh peng Qeq}. This shows that the
>thing you aim is the weapon, not the target. "Explosion" can't be the
>object,
>then.
The verb {puS} "sight (with gunsight)" would probably work fine here.
>What you want to do is aim *at* the explosion.
Or you want to "sight" the explosion.
>Unfortunately, we don't have a ready word for "explosion."
So maybe we should substitute an idea we *do* have a ready word for, like
{qul} "fire". This is a battle situation; brevity is called for.
>jorbogh DujDaq yIQeq 'ej yIbaH!
qulvetlh yIpuS 'ej yIbaH!
-- ghunchu'wI'