tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 07 15:49:28 1996
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Re: nuq?
- From: Susan Farmer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: nuq?
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 18:50:29 -0400 (EDT)
>
>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."
>>
*snip*
>
>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.
>
I always assumed that Qapla' was the klingon equivalent of Aloha and Shalom.
tevram