Antivan is a poetic language, Jim, I can't help if that is how it sounds to you.

[ Seriously. What is it that he heard? Let him try again. ]

Life is short. Life is cheap. Life here ultimately is without meaning as it is completely forgotten upon your arrival home. When you return home you'll remember absolutely nothing of this place. Of what you shared with Spock. So my friend- in a way? It is a funeral. Drink.