tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 12 10:31:06 1999
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RE: How do I say....
Voragh:
> There's no noun in Klingon meaning "greeting" per se [...]
nikolai:
> qa : I-you
> rI': hail
>
> although i expect "hail" in this context means "i'm calling you on the
> communicator", so qarI' would be a little redundant. [snip]
> if we take "hail" in the same kind of sense as "hail, Caesar!", then
> it sounds better.
Thornton:
: I think it is probably more like "hail" used in Star Trek,
: as in <tIrI'!> (or just <rI'!>) "Hail them!" or <nurI', qaH.>
: "They are hailing us, sir."
As confirmed by the noun {rI'Se'} "hailing frequency". We also have the verb {Qum} "communicate", used once by Okrand in a note to SuStel on the old MSN Expert Forum (11/96):
naDev bIQumqa' 'e' vItul.
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons