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Re: Klingon sentimentality

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon sentimentality
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 03:47:08 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 97-02-13 23:17:26 EST, Voragh writes:

<< On the other hand, we know very little about Klingon love poetry (except
 that Klingon males "duck a lot" while reading it aloud). Consider the
 excerpted line from The Klingon Way, p. 17:
 
 	bomDI' 'IwwIj qaqaw.
  	The memory of you sings in my blood.
 	("When my blood sings, I remember you.")
 
 That sounds pretty close to "I miss you" to me. 
  >>

In Chinese Mandarin, "miss" translates as "xiang-nian," literally to "think
on in a profound manner."  While I really like {qaqaw}, I submit also "buS."

peHruS

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