tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 17 03:21:20 1996

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RE: (KLBC) Bye bye



At 09:30 PM 12/16/96 -0800, you wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Michiel Uitdehaag wrote:
>
>:my mate will be waiting there for me.
>:
>:>> wa'vatlh vaghmaH jaj muloS mungaghbogh be'oy
>:><wa'vatlh vaghmaHHu' muloS bangwI'.>
>:><wa'vatlh vaghmaHHu' muloS be'wI'.>
>:
>:I thought about this, but she's not my wife (yet) and beloved
>:sounded so mushy. 
>
>toH! She's your "par'Machkai" then. Now that Okrand has given us parmaq,
>how would this be rendered:  parmaqay(')? parmaqqay(')? parmaqQay(')?

What makes you think it's {qay'} there? I think the word is probably
{parmaqoy}, which sounds the same, but makes sense.

>Considering that parmaq is "the Klingon word for love, but with more
>aggressive overtones," it's amusing to note that qay' means "be a
>problem/hassle" and Qay' is to "blow one's top"!  {{;)
>
>Voragh

-HurghwI'
Hovjaj 96962.3



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