<div dir="ltr"><div>Also note that {Qach} is just {chaQ} backwards. This might have been intentional.<br><br></div>- André<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-17 16:46 GMT+02:00 SuStel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<pre>On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 01:55:22PM +0000, Steven Boozer wrote:
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<pre>Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, October 15, 2016
Klingon word: chaQ
Part of speech: verb
Definition: thrust upward with end of *bat'leth*
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<pre>(KGT 59): There is an extensive vocabulary for the moves associated with bat'leth use. To thrust or lunge toward one's opponent, for example, is {jop}. To deflect a thrust--that is, to parry--is {way'}. To thrust either end of the bat'leth (as opposed to the long part of the blade) upward is {chaQ}. To change the approximate orientation of the weapon from horizontal to vertical is {ngol}; the reverse is {lev}. To slide the blade of one's bat'leth along the blade of the opponent's weapon is {DIj}. To twirl or rotate the bat'leth is {jIrmoH} and to toss it from one hand to the other (the same word is used whether left to right or right to left) is {baQ}.
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<pre>This makes me wonder: is there a specific term that we know of meaning
"to thrust either end of the bat'leth *downward*"? That seems to be a
fairly common move in the combat shown on screen in Star Trek, usually
parried by holding the blade horizontal to catch the thrust. Or would
you just say {jop} and it would be assumed that that was what you were
describing?
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<p>I'd expect <b>Qach</b> to be used for that motion; it's the same
motion you'd use with<b> </b>an axe or club.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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