tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 04 20:08:51 1996
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RE: greetings
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: RE: greetings
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 22:14:36 -0500
ja' HurghwI':
>>Qapla' can be used as greeting too, when adressing honoured warriors.
>
>I always thought of it as a send-off. I've never heard it used as a
>greeting, but I may be wrong.
The warriors in Hallmark's Klingon Bird-of-Prey commercial greeted one
another with the word {Qapla'}. It goes against TKD's assertion that
the *only* greeting is {nuqneH}, but that commercial is generally accepted
as Okrandian canon.
-- ghunchu'wI'