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Re: KLBC: Smile (n)



[email protected] on behalf of Eduardo Fonseca wrote:
> Greetings SuStel!  Are you still here?  :-)))

Of course!  Sorry for the delay; I was at qep'a' loSDIch!

> I didn't remember seeing this discution here. Sorry if I'm redundant, but Is
> there a word for the name: smile  ?

"Smile" is {mon}.  It is a verb.  It means a little more that a sweet, happy 
smile; it's got more Klingon feeling behind it.  Why bother nominalizing a 
verb?

>  I tried: HaghlaH'ghargh or Haghpu'ghargh

Don't add that extra glottal stop in there, and the suffix is {-ghach}, not 
{ghargh} "serpent worm."  {HaghlaHghach} is more like "ability to smile," and 
{Haghpu'ghach} is like "having laughed."

> I was looking for a good translation for:
> 
> {{{:-)  (Klingon' smile)

If you wish to use it like that, you could say {jImon} "I smile."

-- 
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97553.0


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