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

[lojmIt tI'wI' nuv]

A beach made of sand that explodes when water hits it is at least as bad as a cannon lubricant that explodes if sand hits it. I think we have an author who is trying to be a Klingon McIver, in the manner of Galaxy Quest with the line, "Try to fashion a rudimentary lathe..."

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On Mar 19, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Qov wrote:

> At 15:50 '?????' 3/19/2012, you wrote:
>> Are there any water-based lubricants? Maybe the sand was full of phosphorus or sodium.
> 
> A number, but they aren't typically used for disruptor cannons. ghaytan QongDaq retlhDaq lutu'lu'.
> 
> And it was beach sand, making that bizarrely implausible. Not that bizarrely implausible is in any way a restriction for Star Trek plot devices. Hov lengvaD ghu' Dayajchu' DaneHchugh 'oy'choH yablIj.
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> - Qov
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>> -- 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."
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>> 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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