tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 15 10:33:27 1997
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Re: vertical and horizontal
Last night I wrote:
||jatlh SuStel:
||>In "Happy Vertical People Transporter," the "vertical" is referring to the
||>direction which the lift travels. I'm not sure that {chong} means "move
||>vertically," it means "be vertical." I seem to remember that there's a verb
||>meaning "move horizontally," but I can't remember what it is, and I can't
||>find it. Does anyone know it? And do you know if there's also one "move
||>vertically"? I kinda doubt it.
||
||"Move horizontaly" is <nech>. There is no word for vertical movement.
||
||-HurghwI'
|
|There are four such verbs, actually...
|Sal "ascend"
|toS "climb" - defined on MSN as "to move upward"
|ghIr "descend"
|pum "fall" - defined on MSN as "to move downward without restraint
| (due to gravity)"
Another vertical verb to keep in mind:
yoy "be upside down"
... and another horizontal movement verb:
Don "be parallel, go parallel to"
And, of course, there's always taH "be at a negative angle" -- whatever
that's supposed to mean!
-- Voragh