tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 14 19:25:21 1996
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Re: Blood Wine
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Blood Wine
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 22:26:31 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 17:38:20 -0700 [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 96-10-05 20:14:41 EDT, Dark Viper writes:
>
> << wa' mu'? jum 'oH.
> >>
>
> mu' {Huj} wImughtaHvIS "strange, odd, weird" wISuqmo' mu' {jum} wImughtaHvIS
> "odd, not even} wISuq 'e' vIHar
wejpuH. vaj qatlh "even" wIjatlhlaH? chaq *jumHa'*? wejpuHqa'. {{:)>
Why would you expect Klingons to care about whether or not a number were
divisible by twos? If anything, they'd have a word for numbers evenly
divisible by THREES. I STRONGLY suspect {jum} means "be odd" more in the
sense of "be unusual in a suspicious or curious way".
> vaj "even" 'oS mu' {jumHa'} qar'a'
vIHonqu'.
> mI'QeD qel mu'meyvam 'e' vIHar
qatlh mI'QeDmu'mey law'qu' wIHutlh 'ej wa' mu'vam wIghaj. qaStaHvIS wa'
lup vIHarbe'.
> peHruS
charghwI'