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Re: nuqDaq mu'meyvam vItu'laH

Tad Stauffer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

At 10:18 PM 1/6/2004 -0800, yInqa'bogh baHwI wrote:
>mu'ghomDaq mu'meyvam vItu'laHbe'
>
>"love (v)", "mate (v)", "gamble (v)"

You signed your name {yInqa'bogh baHwI}. I'm making sure I address you 
correctly :-) - are you going by {yInqa'bogh baHwI'} or did you mean to 
leave off the last {'}?

To find vocabulary words like these, the places to look first are:
The Klingon Dictionary (including the addendum in the very back)
Klingon for the Galactic Traveler
and the new words list at:
/tlh/newwords.html

For expressing "love" as a verb, we don't have an easy one-to-one 
relationship between English and Klingon. Just like we don't have a simple 
one-word way in English to say "move your next-to-biggest toe" or "fight 
ferociously, on a scale of 4 out of 5". :-)
Some suggestions on how to express the idea of "love" are at the KLI wiki at:
/wiki/index.php?Love

For the verb "mate", check Klingon for the Galactic Traveler, if you have 
your own copy. In the wordlist at the back of the book, you'll find {ngagh} 
"mate with".  An example from the Power Klingon audio tape:
{targhlIj yIngagh! yIruch!} "Go! Mate with your targ!"

Finally, for "gamble", look in the back of TKD in the addendum. You'll find 
{SuD} "gamble, take a chance, take a risk". Note that this is a 
homonym/homophone-whatever you want to call it, it sounds the same as 
another verb {SuD} "be green/blue/yellow".

- taD

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