tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 22 11:03:01 1997

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Re: vegh



I had written:

> > Thus, you can add "veghwI'" to the list of Klingon names (along with
> > 'angghal, najwI', and DevwI') that I've been picking up since I get
> > involved in all of this.

And charghwI' responded:

> I think this should now become your ONLY tlhIngan pong. The
> other names do not seem to have stuck all that well, since
> (aside from {vavoy}) everyone continues to call you Lawrence.
> So, perhaps you should begin signing off with {veghwI'}.

But, don't you see, at this rate I'll be getting a new name every year! 
By qep'a' wa'maH Krankor will have written a song (in Klingon of course)
about the whole thing.  I can't stop now.

And, on a grammatical note: Can we use vegh to describe the passage (and
implicit transformation) of food through a digestive tract?  People are
basically toroidal, so on a purely physical level it would appear to
work.  Could I say:

loD vegh Soj nonqu'

and *not* have it taken metaphorically?  Just a thought.

Lawrence
aka (just this once) veghwI'


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