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

[Robyn Stewart]

I call this using differential power. Maybe also the engines 
themselves can swivel, like on a ship I was on recently, where there 
was no DerwI' but each propellor was mounted on a maneuverable HanDogh.

So Duj vIQoD means "I manoeuvre the ship using the engines" (as 
opposed to with the rudder)?

At 09:46 11/12/2011, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>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)
> > >
> > >
> > >This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh
> > (qurgh at wizage.net).
> > >
> > >
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