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Re: tears (Re: Mr. Charles, revisited)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

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• Subject: Re: tears (Re: Mr. Charles, revisited)
• Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:20:00 EDT

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In a message dated 6/8/2005 10:24:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> 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
> 

{-ghach} apparently requires an intervening verb suffix, so I'd say no.
Besides, although Okrand has said there's no word for tears in Klingon, my 
suggestion of {mIn bIQ} is not a word; it's a phrase (a technicality, I know).  
And Klingons still have to have a way (don't they?) of describing what human 
eyes do when people cry or cut onions.

lay'tel SIvten

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