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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: par
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jul 29 10:25:13 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:25:03 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 29, 2014
>
> Klingon word: par
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: dislike
AFAIK never used in a sentence.
st.k (3/02/1998): "{par} "dislike", for example, is probably the more neutral or expected reaction of a Klingon to someone else; {parHa'} "like" (or, more revealingly, "not dislike" or "undislike" or "misdislike" or even "disdislike" [?!], since it's made up of {par} "dislike" plus {-Ha'}, the negative suffix implying that something is undone or done wrongly) is a modification (an undoing?) of this expected reaction. ... the only (known) way to express the opposite of {par} "dislike" is by adding a negative suffix to {par}. Unlike {QuchHa'} "be unhappy" and {'IQ} "be sad", there's no choice when it comes to like; you've got to use a word based on {par}: {parHa'}. It appears that the only kind of like there is is the "undoing" or "misapplication" of dislike. (Of course, you could also say {parbe'} "like" or, more literally, "not dislike", using the negative suffix {-be'} "not"; but {parbe'} is also based on {par}. {parHa'} is heard more frequently than {parbe'}, however, and this may be a hint at the usual way a Klingon looks at things.) 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)".
Related words:
parHa' like (v)
parmaq love, romance (n)
parmaqqay romantic companion, romantic partner (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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