tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 09 12:42:47 1995
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Re: }} Re: your mail
- From: [email protected] (Jim Boniface)
- Subject: Re: }} Re: your mail
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 09:42:47 -0700
>As {nuqneH} is s'posed to be a *polite* greeting/hail/whatever, *I* think
>of it as "How may I help you?"
>
>If you're gonna greet Death with this, I think you've gotta make sure it's
>understood that you say it *scornfully*. I agree that {nuq DaneH SoH}
>does that better, not only because it emphasizes the "you", but because
>it gets away from a phrase that is usually considered polite.
>
In the part of the say that says "do not greet death" I believe it is
saying "do not be polite to death, that's why you should hit him in the
throat repeatedly.
Jim