tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 05 23:37:28 1997
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Re: New word from Okrand
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: New word from Okrand
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 97 05:27:14 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
> A more relevant aspect seems to be that the object is enclosed, as
> someone else has already noted. Consider that if I'm trapped in a blind
> alley by some Romulans firing disrupters and one of the beams which
> misses me conveniently blows an egress in the previously dead-end wall
> of the alley, then you can bet your socks that I'm going to go through
> and make good my escape. And I'd use <<vegh>>, because I'm going
> through the wall (much like a tunnel), but note that the Rommie never
> "intended" that hole for that purpose.
Hmmm . . . Assuming it was an alley which had an exit on the other end, I
wonder if {vegh} could refer to going through the alley . . . (probably not).
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