tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 04 09:36:45 1996
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RE: greetings
> (This has been debated before, though. If you
> want to question it, take it out of KLBC!)
OK, done. Now, let's chat.
> > OK, I'll buy that. In that case, should each of these 'greetings'
> > I hacked together be reworked into commands?
>
> No! Klingon has only one greeting (this is a fact): {nuqneH}.
I find this rather hard to believe. It's like saying
English-speaking humans only greet each other with "Hello"! I seriously
doubt that a shoemaker would see the High Council walking past and
jauntily shout <nuqneH!> At the very least, Klingons have honour, and
treat those who have it with more. This leads me to believe that there
*must* be some honourific greetings *somewhere*.
Maybe the reason we think there's only one is that Maltz was a bit
bitter about being a Federation prisoner, and used only that one greeting.
That seems much more likely to me...
Do we have any Klingon anthropoligists out there who could shed
some light on this??
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