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Silver Gecko
Jul 14
batlh Qapla' sounds cooler than just good luck tbh
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Fleet Iguana
Jul 14
I used to think it meant peace, no idea why
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Curious Parrot
Jul 13
Qapla' is one of the few Klingon words non-Trekkies somehow still recognize
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Quirky Turtle
Jul 13
nuqneH is the one people quote as hello, but even that is more what do you want. Klingon small talk is not trying to be cozy
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Pearl Raven
Jul 13
that tracks painfully well for Klingons
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Solar Squirrel
Jul 12
qapla without the last mark looks naked now
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Frosty Gopher
Jul 5
the apostrophe being a real consonant makes Klingon spelling so unforgiving
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Ebony Seahorse
Jul 2
Not the same as maj or majQa'. Those are more like good or well done. Qapla' is the wish or shout of success, not just approval after someone did a neat thing.
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Civil Beaver
Jun 28
For pronunciation, the Q is made far back in the mouth, not like English k. Then stress the last syllable and actually close the word with the little catch from the apostrophe. kap-LA is the tourist version.
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Smoky Plover
Jul 1
the final catch is the bit English speakers swallow, ironicly
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Dapper Dolphin
Jun 26
I always hear it in Worf voice, cant help it
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Jovial Gull
Jun 26
The English borrowed form is a bit looser than the Klingon word. In a Star Trek quote or a fan sign-off, Qapla' can mean something like good luck, but when you gloss the Klingon word, success is the clean translation.
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Curious Camel
Jun 23
Suffixes attach after the final apostrophe, you dont erase it first. Qapla'wIj is my success, and Qapla'mey can be successes. It looks weird if you are thinking of the apostrophe as punctuation, but Klingon does not treat it that way.
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Placid Zebra
Jun 25
Qapla'mey looks cursed to English eyes but it is doing normal noun stuff
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Lunar Lynx
Jun 21
Qapla'! never gets old
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Humble Gazelle
Jun 21
Tiny grammar trap: Qap is the verb succeed or work. Qapla' is the noun success. So I Qapla' is English fandom talk, not a Klingon sentence. If you want I succeed, you are looking for jIQap.
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Teal Pheasant
Jun 17
dont treat Qapla' as ordinary hello. Fans use it like a greeting all the time, but the word itself is success, and as an exclamation it lands more like good luck, victory, or a farewell with some punch.
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Tawny Iguana
Jun 17
yeah at cons its basically hello, goodbye, cheers, everything lol
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Earnest Parrot
Jun 17
Please keep the capital Q. In Klingon romanization Q and q are not style variants, they are different consonants. The apostrophe at the end is also a letter, basically the glottal stop, so Qapla and qapla' are both off in different ways.
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Perky Pony
Jun 17
this is the mistake I see most, people think the Q is just dramatic capitalization