tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 14 20:43:58 1996
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Re: KLBC:fractions
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC:fractions
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 23:45:20 -0500
nuqHm writes:
>What's wrong with wej wavta' wa' (or even wejwavta'wa') for 1/3 ?
The big problem is that it's not a number, it's a sentence. The first
small problem is the suffix {-ta'}. "One intentionally divided three?"
The second small problem is that it's backwards.
I've seen a couple of tries using the word {wav}, and they aren't very
intuitive. I suggest a different approach: "one third" is one part of
three parts. I come up with {wej 'ay' wa' 'ay'}. I tried the slightly
simpler {wej 'ay' wa'}, but I think I'd translate that back as "section
one of three" as easily as "one of three sections".
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj