tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 08 07:24:13 2005
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tears (Re: Mr. Charles, revisited)
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>
> ... and not Klingon. Okrand/Maltz has told us explicitly there's no word
> for "tear":
>
> For Klingons, even though there is a word for "cry" ({SaQ}), there
> is no word for "tear" or "tears", undoubtedly because Klingons have
> no tear ducts. The only thing Maltz could think of that eyes do
> from time to time is "redden" (DoqchoH}, literally "become red" or
> "change to red"). (HQ 12.4:9)
>
So, could we form the N[[V-NOMSuf]-N] {SaQghach bIQ} like "crying water"?
I know that there's no referent in {tlhIngan Hol} AFA Klingons are
concerned. But I think this would make sense as a compound formed by
Klingons referring to tears observedly produced by other species (humans for
instance; thus the morphological structure would also tend to reflect
conceptual awkwardness).
-- qIno'rIq
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