tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 02 11:52:07 1998
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Re: how big...
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: how big...
- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 11:52:19 -0700 (PDT)
---Nathan Grange <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was just talking to someone and found myself asking how big was the
> program...
>
> I wrote: tIn ar?
>
> He won't know the difference, but you don't say 'tIn ar' do
you...(how
> much/many big)
>
> so it should be logh ar teb? how much space does it fill, or Dan,
(occupy)
Good thinking. Remember that it's spelled /'ar/ not */ar / -- no
Klingon words start with vowels -- and you're right, you don't use
/'ar/ with /tIn/, only with nouns. /logh/ refers to space as in outer
space, not space as in a gap or capacity. /Dan/ referrs to military
occupation, and the connotations of armed patrols, terrorized
civilians and martial law aren't quite right for program size.
The easiest way to ask this question is just /tIn'a'/? "Is it big?"
People are likely to answer "No, it will fit on a floppy," or "Yeah,
you need 40 MB on your hard drive."
You could also say /*Megabyte* 'ar natlh?/ "How many MB does it use
up?" That's vague, could refer to RAM or HD. You could specify by
beginning the quetion with /vIpolmeH/ (to store it) or /QaptaHvIS/
(while it's operating).
Klingon has separate verbs for "to be -- tall" "to be -- long" "to
be -- wide" so it probably has one to represent the size of a program,
but we don't know what it is, or the unit of measurement used in the
answer.
==
Qov - Beginners' Grammarian
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