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

[David Trimboli]

On 8/3/2013 11:45 AM, De'vID wrote:
> Bellerophon:
>> Understandably, the writers of Klingon Monopoly interpreted "ron" in terms
>> of dice. In terms of flight dynamics, where "ron" is used, it means
>> something different. If an aircraft moved like a die, we wouldn't say it
>> rolled, but that it tumbled.
>
> When I roll dice, I scoop them in my hand and rotate my wrist while
> releasing them. Viewing my outstretched hand as an aircraft, that is
> indeed a rotation about the roll axis. What the dice do after they
> leave my hand, or hit the table, is another matter, but I do in fact
> {ronmoH} them. I think most people do.

STREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETCH!

Anyway, you're not ronmoHing the dice; you're ronmoHing your hand. And I 
don't even ronmoH my hand when I throw dice; it's more a 
forward-diagonal translation with a slight turn of my palm downward 
while I open my fingers.

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