[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: par

[Steven Boozer]

> 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)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons