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Re: Meaning of nuqneH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 7 09:51:14 1994
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From: "Matt Gomes" <m_gomes@macsmtp.kla.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 1994 06:49:35 -0800
Reply to: RE>Meaning of nuqneH
Richard:
HIja' HIja' HIja'.... but it's there.. it's easy to say... and it's just about
the
only thing I know how to say correctly with any sort of confidence!
luq... I will try to think up something else....
That brings up a good point. How would I *START* a conversation with
a Klingon? I've heard dialog in ST:TNG... they always start by saying
something to the effect of "I would speak with you!" Would this be:
qajatlh? qajatlhneS?
Anyone?
Qapla' (the other word I have confidence in!)
-mat
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Date: 1/7/94 3:15 AM
To: Matt Gomes
From: Klingon Language List
mat begins some messages:
>nuqneH:
"nuqneH" is described as the nearest Klingon equivalent to "hello", but it
seems quite wrong to use it to preface one's initial utterance in a
conversation. Literally, it means "what do you want?" If you listen to
how it is used in the first dialogue on the Power Klingon tape, it's the
Klingon who says it, not the tera'ngan who has just walked into his shop.
In other words, "nuqneH" is not used by the person desirous of beginning a
conversation -- that person should just start speaking. It is used by the
other person, when the one who wants to start a conversation is
insufficiently prompt in doing so.
The smallest perceptible time interval may be defined as the time between a
Terran walking up to a Klingon and the Klingon snarling "nuqneH".
-- ____
Richard Kennaway __\_ / School of Information Systems
jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk \ X/ University of East Anglia
\/ Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.
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From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
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Subject: Meaning of nuqneH
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