tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 17 06:04:57 1994
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Re: KLBC: Re: rI' nobmey nobw...
- From: Susan Farmer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Re: rI' nobmey nobw...
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 17:02:05 -0400
>From: Niall Hosking <[email protected]>
>
>charghwI' said:
>>
>> In YOUR example (using Krankor's perferred word for the generic
>> "love" word), if I say {qamuSHa'}, then if you add that YOU
>> love ME, you are changing both the subject and the object, so
>> it is not the same kind of simple addition of another item to
>> the subject list or the object list. In that specific instance,
>> the only answer is {'ej qamuSHa'}.
>>
>>
<deleted>
>My little sister once insisted that I teach her "I love you" in as many
>languages as I could. Having taught her the French, Latin (and
>therefore Italian), Spanish and German, the only other language I could
>manage was Klingon. However, in my naivity (sp?) I used {bang} - I
>guess I'll have to let her know that that's 'wrong'. I'm trying to
>gather a few other languages - hopefully soon I'll be able to do Quenya
>and Sindarin.
>
er, um, ... Why is {bang} "wrong" for love and {muSHa'} "right"?
If {bang} doesn't mean love, what does it mean?
tevram is confused.