I was just reading some excerpts from Mark Twain's "Life On the
Mississippi", in which he writes of learning to be a steamboat
pilot. He describes several times when the boat is "steered" by
changing the speed and direction of the side paddlewheels
independently of each other. Maybe {QoD} refers to operating
different engine banks to steer the ship. On steamboats, these
seemed to be extreme sorts of maneuvers, eg. to avoid a sudden
blockage in the water, and not your normal steering by the rudder.
-- ter'eS
--- On Sun, 12/11/11, Robyn Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: QoD
> To: "qurgh lungqIj" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
> Date: Sunday, December 11, 2011, 9:13 AM
> Does anyone have any idea what an
> engine manoeuvre is? Theories?
>
> I operate a vessel with engines and at no time do I say
> that I
> manoeuvre the engines nor that the engines manoeuvre. I
> manoeuvre the
> vessel using the engines. Is this something that Marc has
> dropped
> into the list to simulate the curious frustration of
> reading someone
> else's word list and wondering what the ethnologist MEANT
> by a
> particular entry? I find this word less useful than
> "be at a
> negative angle." I've used it less than Qab.
>
> At 07:01 11/12/2011, qurgh lungqIj wrote:
> >Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, December 11, 2011
> >
> >Klingon word: QoD
> >Part of speech: verb
> >Definition: maneuver (engines)
> >
> >
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