[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: parHa'

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 27, 2016
> 
> Klingon word: parHa'
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: like

AFAIK it's never been used in a sentence by Okrand.

(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"). It also has no known opposite except for the suffixed forms: {muSHa'} "dis-hate" or "unhate"; {muSbe'} "not hate". 

N.B. {qabelmoH'a'} "Do I please you?" (i.e. "Do you like me?") (PK)

See also {tIv} "enjoy" (v).


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