tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 08 18:52:37 1997
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Re: wejlogh jatlh <Okrand> (Casual?)
"Kenneth Traft" <[email protected]> writes:
>From: "Marc Okrand" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Casual?
>Newsgroups: msn.onstage.startrek.expert.okrand
>Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 13:15:49 -0700
>
>It is not infrequent to hear nonnative speakers of Klingon use <nuqneH>
>"what do you want?" as if it meant "hello" or the like in exchanges such
>as:
>
> Speaker #1: nuqneH
>
> Speaker#2: nuqneH
>
>No one steeped in Klingon culture would do this, however (except in some
>sort of a joking context, perhaps). To begin a conversation, just start!
>Or approach someone and wait for him/her to say <nuqneH> to you. If that
>person doesn't say anything, you probably don't want to talk to him/her
>anyway.
jangbogh ghItlhDaq De'vam chelnISlu'. This ought to go in the FAQ.
-- ghunchu'wI'