RE: Klingon names

["rItlhmoQSuvwI'" <rItlhmoQ@hotmail.com>]

Although... /miv'a' chechwI'/ would have been much more entertaining to
the rest of us...

rItlhmoQSuvwI'
Stardate 2531.2

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Boozer [mailto:sboozer@midway.uchicago.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 18:01
> To: tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
> Subject: Re: Klingon names
> 
> 
> Qelra' wrote:
> 
> >Thanks Ca'Non,
> >
> >P.S. What does "Voragh" mean?
> 
> It doesn't mean anything.  When I was choosing a Klingon name 
> form myself, 
> I decided against transliterating or, worse, translating "Steven 
> Boozer".  That would have resulted in something like {mIv'a' 
> chechwI'} 
> "crown drunkard" (Steven/Stephen < Greek *stephanos* 
> "crown")!  Instead, I 
> combined two names I heard in two different TNG episodes:  Vagh and 
> Moragh.  I like it and it sounds like a name you might 
> actually hear on the 
> show.
> 
> >                             Please forgive all the vocab questions, 
> >but as of now, I don't have access to TKD. "I do not fear asking 
> >questions." (Klingon voice.)
> 
> qay'be'. (It's not a problem. No problem.)
> 
> bIghelbe'chugh vaj bIghojbe'.  (If you don't ask, then you 
> won't learn.)
> 
> Qapla'!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>