tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 15 16:10:06 1998
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RE: How do I say... (ATTN: pagh)
- From: staze <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: How do I say... (ATTN: pagh)
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:10:22 -0700
>I've seen this too, on a web site somewhere. It's definitely not right,
>but I see what they were going for. To start with, whoever did this did
>not realize the importance of capitalization. What they were going for
>was <qabang> - The prefix <qa-> plus the word <bang>.
>
>That is half right. The <qa-> verb prefix indicates the subject is first
>person singular (I) and the object is second person singular (you).
>Unfortunately, the second part, <bang>, is a noun meaning "loved one",
>and cannot be used as a verb. It's kind of like saying "I friend you"
>instead of "I like you".
>
>Klingon donesn't have a verb for "love" that we know of, but there are
>other things we can do. We do have verbs for "disklike" - <par>, and
>"hate/detest" - <muS>. We know that <parHa'>, which is <par> plus the
>suffix <-Ha'>, means "like", so we often use <muSHa'> to mean "love". We
>don't know whether Klingons commonly do this or not, but that's our best
>guess.
yes, I got that. I noticed that qa was a verb prefix, and that bang was
a noun... so that doesn't work... however, what you said does make sence.
you just took the word for dislike and negated it... interesting. well,
ether Marc just left that out of the language, or he forgot... =)
-StaZ