tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Feb 01 16:05:18 1997
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RE: meeting greeting
|January 31, 1997 2:16 PM EST, jatlh tevram:
|> Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome ot tonight's gathering.
|> We are all family here, so please make yourselves at home.
|>
|First of all, I feel that I must point out that if a Klingon were giving this
|lecture, he wouldn't bother with any of this. He'd just get to the point.
|Maybe he'd shout {peba'!}
|
|Anyway, let me stress again that a Klingon speaker would not bother with all
|of these pleasantries. He'd just get right to business.
|
|SuStel
Agreed. If your colleague has a sense of humor, how about giving him
something a little more Klingon to say? Something along the lines of:
Sujatlh 'e' yImev! DaH SoQwIj vItaghrup.
Stop talking! I'm ready to begin my lecture now.
Voragh
(who's amazed that there's actually a word for "lecture"!)