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[Tlhingan-hol] QISmaS yIlop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Fri Dec 13 08:40:52 2013
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:40:30 +0100
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
So many people have been using the word {QISmaS}, so that Marc Okrand
has confirmed it to be canonical:
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I Skyped Maltz. He said he has been asked before about "Merry
Christmas" and "Happy New Year." He thought they were silly things to
say (and, of course, there are no traditional Klingon ways to say these
things), but he said that if you have to say "Happy New Year," you could
say {DIS chu' yItIv} or {DIS chu' DatIvjaj} or {DIS chu' botIvjaj} or
the like.
For "Merry Christmas," he wasn't so sure. He said that perhaps you
could use the name of the holiday (which would be {QISmaS}) and say
{QISmaS yItIv} or {QISmaS DatIvjaj} and so on. He thought that people
who know about Christmas would understand that. He also liked my
sister-in-law's suggestion: {wornagh yItlhutlh!}.
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If you understand German, you might check out the electronic Christmas
greeting card on www.hager.de with a built-in Klingon greeting at the
end. (click on the stamp of the card)
;-)
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
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