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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Welcome to the group,
</span>Aurélie. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On Behalf Of
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">David Holt<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 28, 2016 12:29 PM<br>
</span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A"></span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">{van} is a very reasonable way for Klingons (and thus Klingonists) to great each</span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:02 AM -0500, "Aurélie Demonchaux" wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Haha yes I know the feeling! I wanted to say “nuqneH” in my 1<sup>st</sup> 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’?)</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">>> Aurélie, maHvaD bIjatlhpu' <SaqIHneS>. naDev bIjatlhnISbe' <neS>.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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”.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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