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RE: "Excuse me" and "bless you"

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: RE: "Excuse me" and "bless you"
• Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:37:14 -0400
• Importance: Normal
• In-Reply-To: <362A5D9A1703D2118E0C006008C3AE03A2BBBE@CATL0S04>

> I know that these phrases would probably be anathema to Klingons, but how
> would one say in tlhIngan Hol "excuse me" and "bless you" (when someone
> sneezes, of course). For "excuse me", I might say {pIchwIj}, which I 
> derived from the English slang "my bad". For "bless you", I have tried
> {DaQanlu'jaj} "May you be protected.", but it seems stilted.

These just aren't phrases that jive with the Klingon psyche.

OTOH, when someone sneezes in my house, we say {Qu'vatlh}!  :)

> ~ Thornton

--Holtej

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