tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 19 22:47:57 1999
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Re: The word for Love
ja' [email protected]:
>I believe the word for love is: bang.
Careful -- the word {bang} is a *noun*. It means "one who is loved".
It does not refer to the emotion of love, either as a noun or a verb.
For the emotion, the noun {parmaq} is usually translated as "love" or
"romance", but the actual concept is a bit more aggressive than one
would expect from the English terms.
We know of no simple Klingon verb that is equivalent to the English
verb "love", though there are many ways to express particular shades
of meaning. This was recently discussed here on the mailing list,
and I do not wish to restart the discussion.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh