tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 06 22:30:52 1994
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Re: A little help, please...
- From: mark <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: A little help, please...
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 94 11:25:47 EST
charghwI'vo':
> ... in English, we say telephone numbers like: "nine two four,
> four one eight four." We don't say "nine hundred twenty four,
> four thousand one hundred eighty four". I doubt that Klingons
> would do differently. ...
Well, some other Terran languages do things differently. For
instance, I believe the French say (and print!) the digits of
their phone numbers in pairs: 48 24 17 "forty-eight twenty-four
seventeen" (in French of course). But there's no reason to
suppose Klingons would do anything like that. The digit-by-digit
approach seems most straightforward, and that's the Klingon way.
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : [email protected]