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RE: tlhIngan-Hol Digest 24 Oct 2000 08:00:02 -0000 Issue 1703



lay'tel:
> Start with c (call it <<wovmoHwI' Do>> (velocity of light).) 
 
Actually, we can't.  {wovmoHwI' Do} isn't quite the image you're hoping
for.  {wovmoHwI'} does mean "light", but it refers to the device, not the
phenomenon:

  telDaq wovmoHwI'mey 
  Wing Lights  (KBoP)

It's an illuminator - a "thing which causes (something) to be light/bright"
- like a flashlight, head lamp or running light.

pagh 'utlh:
: Even better: <'otlh Do>. We don't get to use words like <'otlh> very
: often, but it's exciting when we do!

Ooh... "photon velocity".  Very nice!  It's different enough to be
interesting but not enough so as to be incomprehensible, and it uses extant
vocabulary. 


-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 


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