tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 02 08:34:45 1997
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Love is a many-splendored thing...WAS Re: KLBC
- From: "Neal Schermerhorn" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Love is a many-splendored thing...WAS Re: KLBC
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 11:38:06 -0500
ghItlh Qov:
>qamuSHa' - I love you
Forgive me if this argument has come up before...
IMO, unless there's canon to prove me wrong, <muSHa'> is a poor way to
express love. <-Ha'> either undoes the verb or does it wrongly/poorly. <muS>
is glossed as "hate, detest". Either <muSHa'> is to hate poorly or
wrongfully (as when you hate someone because you think they did something
they did not) or it is to "un-hate" or "dis-hate".
What is the opposite of love? I don't think it's hate - hatred, like love,
involves interest in the other's situation (albeit for different motives) -
I feel indifference is the opposite of love. If Klingons do not disagree,
then <muSHa'> should be "no longer hate" or "hate wrongfully" and not
"love".
Perhaps Klingons have no word which corresponds to Terran "love" - perhaps
the best we can do is <bangwI' SoH> or <parmaqqaywI' SoH>. I think having no
one word meaning "love" would be just fine.
Qermaq