Last year at Oshkosh, I saw a miniature replica of a B-17 bomber. Meanwhile, it was 1/3 scale and it flew. Not as a remotely controlled model. A guy sat in it and flew it. The original had a crew of 9 or 10. This one had a crew of one.

The real aircraft is “double decker”, meaning that the pilots sit at one level and the bombardier sits forward and lower than the pilot and copilot, but in the 1/3 version, the pilot sits at the bottom of the fuselage and his head is up where the cockpit would be. The four radial engines are for large RC models.

It took 16 years to build, and the builder/owner doesn’t have a multi-engine rating and is too old and not in good enough shape to pass the physical to get that rating, so the copilot for the “Miracle on the Hudson” flew it for him.

Anyway, it’s a replica, but it’s not tiny, and since he didn’t have his own B-17 to go by, he designed it by scaling UP a much smaller plastic model, so it’s really an oversized replica of a miniature replica…

… making it really hard to figure out what to call it in Klingon, even with this new vocabulary…

charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan

rInpa’ bomnIS be’’a’ pI’.




On Apr 1, 2019, at 4:34 PM, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:

Am 01.04.2019 um 19:07 schrieb qurgh lungqIj:> I agree. {targhHom} is
NEVER just a "small targ", that would be {targh
mach}. A {targhHom} is a creature like a targ, but less like a targ than
a targ normally is.

Okay; If so, that animal would probably still have the size of somekind
of animal (dog, cat size, whatever).

A {targh nu'} otoh would have the size of an ant.

>A {DujHom} isn't just a small ship, it's a different
kind of ship.

True. But you would never fly in a {Duj nu'}.

I'd thing so. From Okrand's description of {nu'} is just refers to
something that is very small and is simply a synonym for {machqu'}.

No, it sure is lots smaller than just {machqu'}. But I will forward
these questions.

Is that "toy targ" as in a plastic one a kid plays with? For that I'd
use {targh velqa'}, with {targh velqa' nu'} for some kind of miniature
targ that might be used in a table top game.

Yes, true. All of those meanings seem to overlap.

Since {velqa'} means replica, theoretically it can refer to the 1:1
replica. A {velqa' mach} is a small replica, and a {velqa' nu'} is a
miniature replica.


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Lieven L. Litaer
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