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Re: more vector questions

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

>De'vID:
> >>I'm also looking for a word for "acceleration".  We do have <chung>
> >>"accelerate", but I'm looking for a noun.  i.e. <ghoS> is to <Do> as
> >><chung> is to...?  Suggestions?
>
>qon Voragh:
> >{chung} is all we have, so if you must have a technical noun I think this
> >is a good place to use {-ghach}.  If you wanted to you could even have
> >slightly different nouns:  *{ghungtaHghach} "constant acceleration" vs.
> >{ghunglI'ghach} "acceleration (up to a pre-determined point?)".  (N.B. just
> >don't attach {ghach} to the bare verb stem.)

De'vID:
>I ended up using <chungtaHghach>, but it's not entirely satisfactory
>to me.  Acceleration being such an important concept for space
>travel, surely it is a common concept among a space-faring race such
>as the Klingons.  Are there no examples in canon where someone talks
>about accelerating the ship?  I guess in <Hov leng> all they do is
>give the final speed/warp factor they desire without explaining how
>it got there!

Correct, but then I wouldn't expect there to be any examples.  That would 
be telling the helmsman how to do his/her job.  Just as our Klingon 
examples give the desired course, without telling the helm which buttons to 
push to change course.

The few statements we have relative to speed, velocity, etc. are:

   qughDo motlh: pIvlob vagh
   Normal Cruising Speed - Warp 5 (KBoP)

   'aqroS qughDo: pIvlob Hut vI' vagh
   Maximum Cruising Speed - Warp 9.5  (KBoP)

   cha'maHvagh vatlhvI' Hong.  QIt yIghoS!
   Slow to one quarter impulse power. (ST5 [punctuation uncertain])

FYI, we also have the verbs {ghur} "increase" and {nup} "decrease" - only 
the former has been used in canon:

   SuvwI' vI' Dub naQvam 'ej ray' HopDaq bachlu'meH chuqna' ghurmoH naQvam
   This serves to steady the aim of a warrior and increase the effective
   range for distance targeting. S14

So I suppose you could also say {Do yIghur/yInup} "increase/decrease 
speed!" ("speed up!" or "slow down!") and give the final, desired speed:

   Do yIghur:  pIvlob jav vI' vagh!
   Increase speed to warp factor 6.5!

You could add {QIt} "slowly" or {tugh} "quickly" if you want:

   tugh yIchung:  pIvlob jav vI' vagh!
   Jump to warp factor 6.5!  [e.g. from warp factor 1?]



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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