tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 22 18:02:04 2006
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Re: Why we can use words that it'd take klingons 5 minutes to understand.
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Why we can use words that it'd take klingons 5 minutes to understand.
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:01:49 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Shane MiQogh, ja':
>The real question would be, which meaning of love would one
>see correct for muSHa'?
Okrand has said that {muS}'s meaning is probably stronger than {par}, but
implies that their basic sense may be comparable, differing more in degree
than in quality:
"Interestingly (and bolstering the idea that "dislike" is a default),
there's also the word {muS} "hate" (which is presumably stronger somehow
than {par} "dislike")." (Okrand to alt.startrek.klingon, 2 Mar 1998)
As such, I would probably use {muSHa'} in something like {qagh vImuSHa'} "I
love gagh" or "I really like gagh". Or, in view of Okrand's comments on
{QuchHa'} in that same posting, even "I used not to like gagh, but have come
to love it".
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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