tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 15 13:26:08 1997
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Re: vertical and horizontal
jatlh Voragh:
>|"Move horizontaly" is <nech>. There is no word for vertical movement.
>|
>|-HurghwI'
>
>There are four such verbs, actually. In Klingon you have to specify in
>which vertical direction you're moving. I'm surprised you didn't find them
>since you remembered that {nech} was listed in TKD as "lateral, be lateral,
>move laterally." (Frankly, I wouldn't have thought of that.)
>
>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)"
Actually, when I was writing a copy of the dictionary, I wrote it in as
"move horizontaly," too, so it was easy to look up. I hadn't thought of
those ones, I guess I wasn't thinking very openly.
-HurghwI'
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>-- Voragh
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