tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 15 03:23:55 2002
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Re: 'or
In a message dated 7/11/2002 10:46:16 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> {chIj} "navigate" is better suited to the person sitting in the passenger
> seat with the map, telling the driver when to turn. Note that {chIjwI'}
> "navigator" and {DeghwI'} "helsman" are - or can be - two different jobs on
>
> a starship. (They certainly are on the US Navy ships I served on; helsmen
> are enlisted men, the ship's navigator is an officer.) I think the verb
> you want is {raQ} "manipulate by hand, handle": i.e. you manipulate the
> controls of the car. Okrand discusses this word in KGT (p.79):
>
> "The closest to a general term in this realm may be the verb {raQ}, which
> means 'manipulate by hand, handle'.
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