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Meaning in Klingon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 16 12:21:19 1994
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From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 12:16:37 -0500
In-Reply-To: ANTIWOLF@vax1.bemidji.msus.edu's message of Wed, 16 Feb 1994 2:32:
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>From: ANTIWOLF@vax1.bemidji.msus.edu
>Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 2:32:32 -0600 (CST)
>I could not find a word for "meaning" in Klingon.
>However, I was watching the TNG episode with Kaless, and in this
>episode, Meaning seemed to be a very important issue.
>Unfortunately, they didn't dicuss this meaning in Klingon,
>so I didn't have a word to associate with it.
>Perhaps "life's direction" might work?
>Would that be "yInHe"? (Life's course?)
"Meaning" as you're using it is an awfully loaded word in English. The
closest I can get to the meaning you seem to be expressing here (which is
not the same as the one I used in the word "meaning" in this sentence)
would probably be "yIn meq", "life's reason". If you mean just "meaning"
as in "intent", something involving "Hech" would be a good place to look,
perhaps recasting it so it's a verb.
>In regards to the word "love" in Klingon, am I correct that it
>is backwards with respect to English?
>That is, in English, to be someone's love, the person is defined
>as being the object of the verb love. In Klingon, to love
>is to make someone your love.... just my humble understaning
>from only a few days of Klingon. :-)
I think you have it backwards; from my reading of the dictionary, and the
line in whichever movie it was, "bang" is a noun, meaning "love" in the
sense of the object of love. One who is loved. A better translation would
be the noun "beloved". So "bangwI' SoH" means "you are my beloved."
>Rob Lent
~mark
