tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 15 19:00:29 1996
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Re: KLBC: poHmey
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: poHmey
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:01:50 -0500
ter'eS asks:
>How does one tell time in Klingon?
One uses a 24-hour day with 60 minutes per hour, exactly like common
Terran military time. Beyond that, I'm not certain. I'm afraid that
I must ask someone else to explain it fully.
>I know that one of the tapes has some
>examples, but they just confused me. The tape has (as I recall) {javvatlh
>rep} for "six a.m.", but also has {vagh rep} for "5 a.m.". It also has
>{cha'maH wa'vatlh rep} for "21:00 hours" (Ithink they had it wrong on the
>tape and called it "noon"); and also {pagh rep} for "midnight".
Sometimes it's best to ignore the examples and focus on the rules. The
obvious "2100 hours = noon" error is justification for this. The rules
as I understand them are just like military time: midnight is zero hours,
six am is six hundred hours, noon is twelve hundred hours, and six pm is
eighteen hundred hours. Teatime is sixteen hundred thirty hours.
> But how
>do you indicate minutes, for example, 21:34, or especially 00:05?
I expect one would say {cha'maH wa'vatlh wejmaH loS rep} and
{paghvatlh vagh rep}.
>Also, how do you say "What time is it?" and what is the form of the answer?
I'd ask {nuq 'oH rep'e'?} The answer would probably be merely the time.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj