tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 08 08:13:13 1998
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RE: KLBC Klingon Name
>
> My own name, pagh, happens to be a word, which means, among other
> things, "nobody" and "nothing". This has occasionally caused confusion,
> although most of it has been humorous. If I were choosing anew, I would
> probably avoid <pagh> because of this confusion, but <pagh> has been my
> name for a long time, and I don't want to change it.
>
> pagh
> Beginners' Grammarian
Indeed. Among other things <pagh> means:
nothing, none
no one
zero (the number)
or, or else, either/or (the conjunction)
the name of a ship (IKV Pagh)
those malevolent wraiths at Deep Space Nine.
leading to some amusing double entendres in the canon:
taH pagh taHbe'. (ST6)
pa'vo' pagh leghlu'. (CK)
Qu' buSHa'chugh SuvwI', batlhHa' vangchugh, qoj matlhHa'chugh, pagh ghaH
SuvwI''e'. (TKW)
Dal pagh jagh. (TKW)
And my favorite:
lojmIt poSDaq Daq pagh. (PK)
which pretty much describes his role of Beginning Grammarian on this mailing
list!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons