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There is no direct translation for the word “Hello” in Klingon; the closest approximation translates as “What do you want? (nuqneH)”

16th century Spanish explorers referred to the large reptiles they found in the Americas as “el lagarto de Indias,” or “the lizard of the Indies.” Thanks to their phrase and a few phonetic shifts as it made the jump to English, we now refer to those same large reptiles as alligators.