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Re: New canon? (ENT "Affliction")

QeS lagh ([email protected]) 

ghItlhpu' Voragh:

>But for the bit after Marab was shot, I think I've got it all.  (Oddly, 
>there was no tlhIngan Hol used in the second part "Divergence" IIRC.)  
>Except for {loHwI'} "magistrate" - the derived noun from {loH} "administer" 
>(BTW we've heard of Klingon magistrates before in ENTERPRISE.) - there are 
>no new words but there are a couple of extended meanings and suffixed 
>forms:

>{Qeq}      "target" (v.)

This is the one that interests me the most: it shows how to use {Qeq} "to 
aim". From the sentence in the episode, {'ay'vamDaq nuHmey tIQeq}, it would 
seem that "to aim" is inherently the "causative" sense. So, one wouldn't - 
or couldn't? - say *{ghaHDaq Qeq nISwI' HIch} "the disruptor pistol is 
aiming at him", but {ghaHDaq nISwI' HIch Qeq yaS} "the officer is aiming the 
disruptor pistol at him" (or "the officer is causing the disruptor pistol to 
aim at him").

Subject = aimer (a person or a device, not a weapon), direct object = thing 
(weapon) being aimed, noun + {-Daq} = target.

>{ngaQmoH}  "secure/lock (something)" (v.)
>{wuqHa'}   "commute" (lit. "un-decide", i.e. revoke a decision) (v.)
>{jol Quv}  "transport site" (lit. "transporter coordinates" (n.)

These three seem pretty self-explanatory - although I must say I really like 
the use of {wuqHa'} in this sense.

Do we have a source for the info on Memory Alpha?

Savan,

QeS la'
taghwI' pabpo' / Beginners' Grammarian


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