[Tlhingan-hol] QISmaS yIlop

[Robyn Stewart]

Please let the "HE THOUGHT THEY WERE SILLY THINGS TO SAY" be recorded in
bold alongside these greetingsqoq. I will never use them.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lieven [mailto:levinius at gmx.de] 
Sent: December 13, 2013 5:41 AM
To: tlhingan-hol at stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] QISmaS yIlop


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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