tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 08 10:43:45 2000
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RE: how to say kiss in klingon
- From: Burt Clawson <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: how to say kiss in klingon
- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 11:35:32 -0700
ja' De'vID:
> [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > how do you say kiss in klingon? e.g., a kiss, to kiss, kiss me. all i
> could
> > come up with was a long paraphrase meaning to push x's lips to y's lips.
> if
> > kissing is unknown in klingon culture then i could just use a borrowing
> from
> > DIvI' Hol, viz. qIS.
> > SIvten
>
> How about <chop> with a suffix?
> The man kissed the woman lightly: <be' choplaw' loD>
> The man kissed the woman passionately: <be' chopchu'qu' loD>
>
> It's more Klingon, anyways. =)
>
> (Perhaps <noSlaw'> would work as well.)
>
> --
> De'vID
>
>
tlhoy roSchuq parmaqpu'.