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

[Terrence Donnelly]

Are there any water-based lubricants? Maybe the sand was full of phosphorus or sodium.

-- ter'eS

--- On Mon, 3/19/12, De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

From: De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ngIS
To: tlhIngan-Hol at kli.org
Date: Monday, March 19, 2012, 5:09 PM



Qov:

> jabbI'ID per vIleghDI', jIjatlh, "mu' vetlh vIghojbe'."  jabbI'ID vIlaDchoHDI' vIghovbe'bej.

> bIqIDbe'bej'a'?
qatlh qIDlu' 'e' DaQub?  mu' qID Daghov'a'?
tlhIngan Hol mu'na' 'oH 'e' wISovbejbe'.  'oghbe'law' MO 'ej 'olbe'law'.
It's a DeCandidovian Klingon word, not (yet) an Okrandian Klingon word.
Qov:

> Any word on whether this lubricant has its basis in petroleum, graphite, polyfloridated hydrocarbons or animal oils?
From "Honor Bound":

"Each grenade was a hollow metal oval, into which they had placed the sand from the shores of the Prime Village and a small glass bottle containing {ngIS} — a lubricant used on the disruptor cannons, and which the {Gorkon} had in plentiful supply.  Throwing the grenade with sufficient force would break the bottle upon impact with a solid surface — they had been using B'Oraq's specimen bottles, which were fairly fragile — causing an explosive chemical reaction with one of the minerals in the sand."

I'm no chemist, and I don't know what kind of lubricant would react explosively with a mineral found in beach sand.  A cannon lubricant that explodes under any condition sounds kind of like a bad idea to me.




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