<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">People who don’t know the language but think it’s funny and skim an intro tend to walk up and wave at you with a Vulcan “Live long and prosper†finger split and say something like “Kaplaaah, Dude!†</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They think it’s the Klingon equivalent of the Italian “Ciaoâ€. You say it for “helloâ€. You say it for “goodbyeâ€. They are clueless that it actually means “Success!†and is appropriate for times when a zealot alludes to a mission you and they have in common and imply {maQapjaj!} They think it’s something closer to “Howdy†or “Tatah for nowâ€.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m sure Okrand gets a lot of that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, “Hiâ€.</div><br class=""><div class="">
<div>charghwI’ ‘utlh</div><div>(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div>
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 27, 2021, at 8:34 AM, De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" class="">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat., Mar. 27, 2021, 09:43 Will Martin, <<a href="mailto:willmartin2@mac.com" class="">willmartin2@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">I was led there by seeing {QaplaStep} as “Hi, Stepâ€, </div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">How does {Qapla} turn into "hi"?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">-- </div><div dir="auto" class="">De'vID</div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote></div></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>