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RE: hello

• From: "Clint St.Laurent" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: hello
• Date: Mon, 23 Dec 96 14:55:05 -0800

>Oh dear, here we go again.
>
>{nuqneH} is indeed the only standard greeting, but that doesn't mean you use 
>it the same way you use "hello."  Klingons have social situations where it 
>is 
>correct to use {nuqneH}.  Why would it mean "what do you want?" if it really 
>meant "hello?"

I am only a beginner but it seems like a LOT of debate is waging over 
this simple phrase... Why would humans ask "what's up?" when they mean 
'hello'?  Shouldn't this phrase (nuqneH) be taken as an idiom rather than 
literally?  After all, nobody expects to see canines and felines hitting 
the ground just because "it's raining cats and dogs."

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