tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 04 07:05:31 1994
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Klingon Love
- From: Carl Sadler <[email protected]>
- Subject: Klingon Love
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 19:01:57 +0100
Well, several of you mentioned using {bangwI' SoH} for "I love you".
Well, just to explain, my logic in using {bang SoH} was that {bang} is
defined as love or one who is loved, so I was using the 'one who is loved'
sense of it. It never occurred to me to use {bangwI' SoH} because that,
to me, sounds like 'you are my love'. Unfortunately, I have a tendency to
translate too literally from English to Klingon, and honestly, 'you are
my love' is just as valid to say in English as is 'I love you'--it's just
that you don't hear it like that usually. :)
If I were to use {bangwI'} in saying "I love you" I would probably be
more inclined to say something like {bangwI' Daghaj} since you'd have to
be going to a rather 'loose' [in terms of literal wording] translation
anyway. Would that be a better way to say it, anyway?