[tlhIngan Hol] [KLBC] introducing myself - jISovmoH’egh

Aurélie Demonchaux demonchaux.aurelie at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 05:14:07 PDT 2016


janSly Voragh je, tujangta’mo’ Satlho’. :)

2016-09-28 19:59 GMT+02:00 Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>:

> Welcome to the group, Aurélie.
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> David is quite correct.  In the TNG episode “The Emissary”, the
> half-Klingon K’Ehleyr introduced herself to the humans in the Enterprise-D
> transporter room, “I greet you. I am K’Ehleyr.”  Riker responded in
> Klingon, “{nuqneH qaleghneS}”.  She replied -- perhaps ironically
> considering how bad his pronunciation was -- “You speak Klingon!”… in
> English.
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> Voragh
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> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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> *On Behalf Of *David Holt
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 28, 2016 12:29 PM
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> {van} is a very reasonable way for Klingons (and thus Klingonists) to
> great each other. The controversy comes in the fact that you are
> obliquely making a statement about the action, not actually accomplishing
> the action. If you're going to salute me, then salute me - you don't have
> to talk about it, just do it. None the less, statements like {qavan} and
> {qatlho'} are very common among Klingonists and I even use them myself.
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> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:02 AM -0500, "Aurélie Demonchaux" wrote:
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> Haha yes I know the feeling! I wanted to say “nuqneH” in my 1st message
> but as I’m the newcomer, it doesn’t apply. And I don’t know if “I salute
> you” / “qavan” can serve as a greeting formula (it has quite a military
> connotation, qar’a’?)
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> >> Aurélie, maHvaD bIjatlhpu' <SaqIHneS>. naDev bIjatlhnISbe' <neS>.
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> Ok, I was trying to convey “nice to meet you” so I figured adding “neS”
> would convey a similar idea in a Klingon way, using “I'm honoured to meet
> you” instead. But then the true Klingon way is possibly to just say nothing
> in those cases, a bit like for “hello”.
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