[Tlhingan-hol] Expressing gratitude

[qunnoQ HoD]

> If you are referring to the "Sentences as Objects" email, rest assured
that it has gone out to the list

strange.. It didn't come to me yet (the original mail). I thought that mail
was delivered simultaneously through the list. ok,though. I'm not in a
hurry anyway. I'll spent some time hunting targhmey in the holodeck.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:03 PM, David Holt <kenjutsuka at live.com> wrote:

> ghItlh qunnoQ HoD:
>
>
> > actually,before sending the "expressing gratitude" mail,I sent a KLBC
> question but apparently it has been lost in subspace. Hopefully it will
> reappear
> > in the hours to come..
>
> If you are referring to the "Sentences as Objects" email, rest assured
> that it has gone out to the list and 'arHa has received it.  He just hasn't
> had time to respond and we are all awaiting his response as the BG before
> we add in any additional notes.  Please be patient. He will be with you as
> soon as he can.
>
> janSIy
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Rohan Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ghItlhpu' qunnoQ, jatlh:
>> > I recently read that klingons do not say "thank you". So I
>> > wonder.. What does a Klingon say to express gratitude ?
>> > What would he/she say in the place of "thank you" ?
>>
>> I feel okay jumping in on this one because it's really not a grammar/KLBC
>> question, and more just one of practical usage that can't be answered based
>> on canon :)
>>
>> The short answer is: it's complicated.
>>
>> The long answer is that like lojmIt tI'wI' nuv, I find it difficult to
>> believe that Klingons wouldn't express gratitude if they felt it truly
>> warranted (though as SuStel notes, it's probably not an everyday
>> expression; I thank people too often when speaking Klingon, I know this to
>> be true). Apart from just being a good way to be open about a positive
>> emotion, it also helps to keep the other person feeling positively about
>> interacting with you or doing things for you, so it's not like it's an
>> entirely useless nicety. As for how Klingons would thank each other, to be
>> honest, we don't know; we have no canon for this that I'm aware of.
>>
>> In practice, Terran Klingon speakers sometimes use {qatlho'} "I thank
>> you" or {Satlho'} "I thank you all", or more simply {tlho'}, which can be
>> interpreted either as a Clipped Klingon version of {qatlho'}/{Satlho'}, or
>> simply as the noun meaning "gratitude". I've both heard and used {tlho'} at
>> qep'a'mey. How I, personally, do it is to use a brief {tlho'} more or less
>> where I'd say "cheers" in my native Australian English (which can be a wide
>> range: having a stranger hold an elevator for me, expressing appreciation
>> to the bus driver as I leave the bus, getting a compliment from a friend...
>> not as in the toast, though). If I want to say a more formal "thank you" or
>> "thank you very much" - if I were being presented with an award or
>> recognition, for instance - then that would warrant the full, unclipped
>> {qatlho'}, or perhaps even {qatlho'qu'} or {qatlho'qu'neS}, depending on
>> the context. (Substitute pronominal prefixes as appropriate, of course.)
>>
>> Nevertheless, there are other ways to show someone your gratitude or
>> appreciation. It can help to work out what you're thanking the other person
>> for. Did they do something you asked of them? You could say the exclamation
>> {maj} "good" or simple verbs like {jIbel} "I'm pleased", {jIyon} "I'm
>> satisfied", or {jIQuch} "I'm happy". Has someone paid you a compliment? You
>> could say something like {choquvmoH} "you honour me". I find myself using
>> this one often (not least of the reasons why is that I often feel that
>> compliments that are paid me go beyond what I feel I deserve, but that's
>> another story).
>>
>> QeS 'utlh
>>
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