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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: QoD

lojmIt tI'wI' nuv ([email protected]) 

<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Keep in mind that spacecraft lack rudders. "Maneuvering thrusters" appears in many places in the Star Trek world. {QoDmeH chuyDaH}?&nbsp;</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:03 PM, De'vID jonpIn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p>&gt;&gt; Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, December 11, 2011<br>
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&gt;&gt; Klingon word: QoD<br>
&gt;&gt; Part of speech: verb<br>
&gt;&gt; Definition: maneuver (engines)</p><p>Qov:<br>
&gt; Does anyone have any idea what an engine manoeuvre is? Theories?</p><p>Maybe the word "(engines)" is just there to indicate that this word is not related to {tuH} "maneuver (military term)".&nbsp; Bracketed words in the definitions in TKD often served as disambiguators between the multiple possible readings of the English definitions.&nbsp; In other words, maybe "(engines)" just means this word is used with vehicles, as opposed to (say) armies or fleets or people.</p><p>--<br>
De'vID</p>
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