tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 19 00:27:18 1994
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Re: Talk like a Klingon!
>From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
>Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 21:03:59 -0400 (EDT)
>> > Klingons do not cry. Remember from ST6; no tear ducts. ({SaQ} prob'ly means
>> > "cry out").
>Not that languages can't tolerate synonymy, by any means, but we *are*
>given {jach} for "cry out." Given the small size of our lexicon, it's
>extremely inefficient to have two terms for this.
>Is there any canon to support uses for {SaQ} or {jach}? I'd like to
>know that I've been correct, when pleading to my son, {bISaQ 'e'
>yImev!} or {yISaQQo'!}
I don't remember that line from ST6, but it should be noted that it's
possible to weep without shedding tears. Tears are a symptom of weeping
among humans, but insofar as it may or may not make sense to speak of
Klingons weeping, I don't see what salt-water dripping down their faces has
to do with it. Babies often cry without tears (I've noticed), and there
have been studies done about the physiological differences between men and
women that make women a whole lot more lachrymose when they cry than men
are when they do.
Oh, and I may be wrong, but I seem to recall Klingon women playing an
awfully powerful and warrior-like role in some of the shoes more recently;
I can't see them as stay-at-homes...
>--Holtej
~mark