tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 07 12:13:47 1996
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Re: nuq?
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: nuq?
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:42:11 -0500 (CDT)
At 10:28 AM 10/7/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Steve Boozer writes in a reply:
>< Worst of all,
><the four "warriors" salute Gen. Martok with mugs of "bloodwine" (one
><word) and "Q'APLA!" Changeling/Martok replies "Q'APLA!" (This is
><definitely a greeting.)
>
>I find that Qapla' can be used as a greeting. Think that every on of these
>Klingons is a warrior and would use clipped Klingon often. As a greeting a
>Klingon in a setting as seen in DS9 would say "Success to you" however in
clipped in
>could come out as "Success."
>
>Earth Langauges have similarites I believe. I think, I may be way off here,
>that Good Morning is actually a shortend version of "May you have a Good
Morning"
>but that is just too long to say all the time. Hence Good Morning. Like I
said I
>could be wrong though. I am not a linguistic expert of any kind.
>
>Qapla' Success
>may'qal ro' ghojmoHwI' Michael Rowe, Instructor
I think you won't get any argument here that it's probably abbreviated from
something longer. I should have been more precise and called it an "entrance
line". We thought that Qapla' was only an "exit line", a parting salutation.
Since in this scene they don't say anything else to each other, it's pretty
conclusive (that is, if you accept Paramount usage) that Qapla' is an
opening salutation as well, at least among warriors.
SoHvaD je Qapla'
Voragh
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Steven L. Boozer [email protected]
Cataloging Department University of Chicago Library
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