tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 09 13:54:55 1997
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Re: Re : Re: KLBC: Klingon desktop items (nuqneH)
- From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Re : Re: KLBC: Klingon desktop items (nuqneH)
- Date: 26 Jun 97 15:31:21 EDT
ghItlh cha'wIgh
> Please compare the Australian owyergoin (How are you going?) and the
>British How do you do? (yes I know, how do you do what?) as other
>greetings. The French have also said ca va (pron: sa va) as a greeting
>which would be close to the above Australian expression. Besides a
>greeting heard in many languages is good day [examples bonjour, buenos
>dias, buongiorno, guten tag] and just what does that mean : after all an
>accepted reply in all of those languages is to repeat the same word -
>not exactly the norm for human languages.
>I believe the French phrase referred to is "qu'est-ce que tu as?" [pron:
>kesk' tu a] which translated means "what have you got?".<
Or German, where it is, to my memory, "How goes it you?" with the "you" acting
as object, I think.
Qapla'
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