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Re: SImwI'mey Sar



De'vID:
>SImnaQ = slide rule, or "stick thing"?  Either could be described
>         by /naQ/.
 
DloraH:
: First note that these are names and are not grammaticly correct.
:    SImtIq  -  SIm/calculate(v) + tIq/long(v)  -  slide-rule
:    SImnaQ  -  SIm + naQ/stick(n) - that thing Joel presented in last HolQeD

Why not avoid compounding a verb with a noun and just say *{SImmeH naQ} "stick
for calculating", as in

  {ghojmeH taj} "boy's knife" (i.e. "knife for learning") KCD
  {DevmeH paq} "guide(book}" (TKW)
  {QongmeH Duj} "sleeper ship" (SkyBox S15)
  {SopmeH pa'} "dining room, eating room" (st.k 6/97)
  {HoS QaymeH 'och} "power transfer conduit" (BoP Poster)
  {Soj polmeH pa'} "food storage [room]" (BoP Poster) 
  etc.

Less elegant - at least to my ears - is *{SImbogh naQ} "stick that calculates",
e.g. {romuluSngan Sambogh 'ej HoHbogh nejwI'} "Romulan hunter-killer probe" or
a {HoHwI'} for short (KCD).  From this, you could probably call both *{SImwI'}
for short if you like.

BTW, not all slide rules are straight.  I've used a circular one myself on
occasion, a *{SImmeH gho} if you will.


-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons


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