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

[Terrence Donnelly]

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 <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:

> From: Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: QoD
> To: "qurgh lungqIj" <qurgh at wizage.net>, "tlhingan-hol at kli.org" <tlhingan-hol at kli.org>
> 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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