tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 08 14:29:51 1996
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Re: KLBC Preguntas
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC Preguntas
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 17:00:29 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "David Barron" at Feb 8, 96 08:39:46 am
According to David Barron:
>
>
> Boy, you ask some good questions. Most of which we've hashed out over
> the years. But as for this one:
>
> > 4. Is there any way to express a fraction?
>
> I wrote an article in HolQeD v3n2 on how one might deal with simple
> arithmatical properties. I proposed that in order to say 1/10 you would
> say <wa'vo' wavbogh wa'maH> "one from which ten divides".
I respectfully challenge this. It it the old "ship in which I
fled" problem. Since you can't mark {wa'} with two different
Type 5 suffixes at the same time, this can also mean "ten which
divides from one". Either way, it is more that a little bit
cryptic. And how would you say, "five and three tenths"?
I responded to the article on the net and because everyone read
my response, Lawrence refused to publish it in HolQeD because
it could no longer be peer reviewed anonymously.
The fact is, Okrand has not told us how to express fractions,
beyond {bID}, except as percent. One tenth would be
{wa'maHvatlhvI'}. Five and three tenths would be {vagh
wejvatlhvI'}.
> david
charghwI'
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