tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 15 16:31:28 1996
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Re: <Qapla'!> (was: Re: nuq?)
- From: David Barron <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: <Qapla'!> (was: Re: nuq?)
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 16:31:23 -0700 (MST)
At 12:18 PM 10/15/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Looks like time to remind people -- or inform them, for those who haven't
>heard (of) it -- about Okrand's interview on NPR (that's the U.S. National
>Public Radio network).
>
>After discussion of Klingon, how M.O. had come to be involved with it,
>what it was about, and so on, the time ran out, and the interview ended
>about like this (from memory):
>
> ****************
>
>Q: Well, we have to wrap this up now. Tell me, Dr. Okrand, how does a
>Klingon say goodbye?
>
>A: He doesn't. When he's finished his business he just leaves.
> (sound of chair scraping across floor)
> (sound of footsteps walking away)
> (sound of door opening, a few more footsteps, door closing)
>
>Q: And... that's Dr. Marc Okrand, the inventor of the Klingon language.
>
> ******************
>
>Although we have plenty of ideas that we don't know how to express in
>Klingon (HIHarHa': I took down and typed up the Wish List at the qep'a'
>wejDIch!), we seldom have positive canonical evidence that no
>expression exists in Klingon for a given concept. But here we do. Here is
>unequivocal canon stating that
> KLINGONS DON'T SAY GOODBYE
In the same interview Dr. Okrand, in explaining the pronunciation of
<Q> say "...Qapla', means "success". which has become used as a general hail."
So, there are those points that Okrand enforces and those points that
Paramount enforces. They don't necessarily agree.
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