tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 15 12:38:09 1996
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Re: Let He Who Is Without Sin.
- From: "Joel Anderson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Let He Who Is Without Sin.
- Date: 15 Nov 1996 17:33:26 -0000
>For those who missed it, haven't yet seen it, or simply don't like Star
>Trek, a new "Paramount Hol" word was used in the latest Deep Space Nine
>episode, "Let He Who Is Without Sin." Worf was talking to Dax and said,
>"Since you are my {parmach'ay'}...
...
>If we take the liberty of accepting {parmach} as the Klingon noun for
>"love with aggressive overtones" (admittedly a *very* big liberty for
>many), then it is conceivable that a {parmach'ay'} is literally a
>"section [part] of love." Imagine love as being a collective thing made
>up of two individuals, who are each parts of it. Therefore, we have
>{parmach'ay'}, a grammatically correct compound noun translating as
>"section of love!"
majQa'! Excellent! Thank you for posting this - I haven't seen
this episode - it didn't appeal to me, and I was kind of burned
out after seeing the Tribble episode three times...
I would agree with our esteemed Beginner's rejmorgh regarding
the suffix being -oy, though. (OTOH, I wouldn't agree with his
"clued-in dummy" crack. Typical.)
joel anderson * [email protected] * [email protected]
mIghghachvo' yImej 'ej yIQaQ; roj yInej 'ej Dochvam yItlha'
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