<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 “Ciao”. You say it for “hello”. You say it for “goodbye”. 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 now”.</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, “Hi”.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<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, Step”, </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">
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