[Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' vaghmaH Soch: <puj HIch>

[Steven Boozer]

FYI, the object of {bach} is anything that issues from the weapon:

KGT 56:  The verb used for "shoot" when referring to disruptors is {bach}. Technically speaking, one shoots the energy beam from the disruptor. The general word for any energy beam (ray) is {tIH}, so a disruptor's beam is {nISwI' tIH}. Thus, the correct formation is {nISwI' tIH bach} ("shoot the disruptor beam").

  pe'vIl mu'qaDmey tIbach 
  Curse well!  (TKW)

TKW 148:  The commonly heard sendoff "Curse well!" - roughly comparable in usage to the Federation Standard "Good luck!" - literally means, "Shoot curses forcefully!" Curses are considered a weapon of a sort which must be propelled to their targets.

Colloquially, the object can sometimes be the weapon itself:

KGT 56:  As a practical matter, however, the {tIH} is often left out, and {nISwI' bach} is the common way to say "shoot a disruptor". Similarly, {pu' bach} is "shoot a phaser".

But the target, what the weapon shoots at, is always marked by {-Daq}:

  logh veQDaq bachchugh, yoH 'e' toblaHbe' SuvwI' 
  Shooting space garbage is no test of a warrior's
  mettle.  (ST5 notes)

  SuvwI' vI' Dub naQvam 'ej ray' HopDaq bachlu'meH chuqna'
   ghurmoH naQvam 
  This serves to steady the aim of a warrior and increase
  the effective range for distance targeting.  (S14)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ghunchu'wI' 'utlh
> 
>> tlhIngan bach...
> 
> bachHa' mu'meyvam. Unless he's planning to fire her from a circus
> cannon?
>