tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 14 12:14:26 2003
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Re: KLBC - "Kiss her now"!
[email protected] wrote:
>Unless I have missed Maltz's discussion of this on a previous HolQeD issue, I
>can't find a word for kiss, so... How does this look...?
>
>DaH wuSDu'DajDaq wuSDu'wIj yIlan.
Note bad: "Place your lips on his/her lips now!"
>Kiss her now!
Although we don't have any separate verb for "kiss", Okrand supplied this
sentence for the British "Radio Times" special Star Trek anniversary book:
HIchop, bang.
Give us a kiss, love.
Note that this uses {chop} "bite", but it may be that to Klingons, the two
actions resemble each other. This even showed up on TNG once; IIRC Data's
android "daughter" Lal saw two human crewmen kissing in Ten Forward and
exclaimed in alarm, "Why is he biting that woman?" <g>
OTOH, we've learned that Klingon males initiate courtship by biting the
female (VGR "Someone to Watch Over Me"). Many human cultures don't - or
didn't until recently - have the European custom of kissing, so it's not
unreasonable to imagine that the Klingons may not either.
>http://www.cartoonsforum.com/Kevs/Art/KlingonCupid.JPG
wejpuH.
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- that's
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