tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 14 12:10:23 1998
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Re: betleH mu'
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: betleH mu'
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:09:20 -0500
At 11:43 AM 7/14/98 -0700, voragh wrote:
>I think {pach} would be better for the entire C-shaped extremity rather than
>just the cavity between the two points. This way the bat'leth would have a
>{pach nIH} "right claw" and a {pach poS} "left claw". I like {Ho'} for the
>four tips or points, and wonder if the plural might be *{Ho'Du'}
>colloquially instead of the expected *{Ho'mey}. See by analogy KGT p.97:
My only quibble is that I don't claim that the points _are_ {Ho'Du'} or
the C-curve between them _is_ the {pach}; they may have entirely
different names if MO ever gets around to telling us. I just wondered
if they were descriptive enough to use in a story.
>
>HetaQ (Chet Braun) faced this same nomemclature problem in his bat'leth
>manual, "Secret Fighting Arts of the Warrior Race: vol.1 betleH yIqel" (173
I intend to steal^H^H^H^H^H borrow some of his fight scenes for my
story!
--ter'eS