tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 26 16:10:32 1996
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Re New here
I'm new here.
I am confused by the following message:
>>So why do you say {nuqneH} when *you* begin? You used one Klingon
>>word, but you misused that word.
>>
>>-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
>I was under the impression that it was a traditional greeting.
>I was misstaken.
>Scott
As I understand it, nuqneH is definitely The Only greeting in
Klingon, as per Conversational Klingon. It is also used as such in
the KLI's Hamlet, for example . Act I, Scene II where Horey'So arrives to see
Hamlet and greets him with the phrase <nuqneH, joH quv!> "Hail to your
lordship" in Terran Hamlet. The KD lists it as a greeting as well.
Are Scott and I missing something here?
I thought it wasn't always to be taken
literally, rather like "What Ho?, "How do you do?" and "Howdy"."
I look forward to enlightenment.
-jaj
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