tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 22 08:17:39 1997

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RE: KLBC Dax & nuq Hech jIH

ghItlh SuStel
>Remember, {nuqneH} is NOT "hello."  It means, "What do you want?"  It's called 
the only Klingon greeting, or one of the very few Klingon greetings.  Some on 
the list believe that it can be used in exactly the same way as we use 
"hello": purely as a conversation starter.  Others believe that it is meant 
literally: you say {nuqneH} when someone shows up and you want to find out 
what he wants.

But it doesn't *mean* hello.<

I don't know who wrote the remarks in the back of "Hamlet, QonoS ta' puqloD" and
the introduction (tlhaQqu'!), but he really simplified things for me in the
remarks when he said that "nuqneH" is very close to "What's up?"  That's how I
usually use it as. (ghaH 'Iv 'e' Sov'a' vay?  HIja'neS.)  --qoror

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