tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 04 18:07:49 2004
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Re: [KLBC] "I love you" word (sentence) order
ghItlh Thorwald Peeters <[email protected]>:
> I was wondering about this too, as the dictionary (klingonska akademien
> one) I use states "love" together with "one who is loved" and "beloved".
> But then there is {bang bom} meaning "love song". This seems to indicate
> that {bang} is both receiver and object given.
>
> > qurgh
>
> Thorwald Peeters
My dictionary glosses it that way too, but I remember being told on the list
that bang doesn't mean love, it means beloved. parmaq is the closest word we
have for love.
I guess I always thought that {bang bom} ment "beloved's song". To me this would
be a song you give to your beloved, which would be a love song for us. Klingon
mating rituals involved reading poetry with the other partner throws heavy
objects at the reader. I imagined them reading {bang bommey}.
qurgh
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