tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 09 08:44:53 1998
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Re: Decimal numbers on the BoP poster (KBP)
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Decimal numbers on the BoP poster (KBP)
- Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 10:44:01 -0600
At 10:16 PM 12/8/98 -0800, DloraH wrote:
>.8 loghqam = 1 LY = 9.46 x 10^12 km
>
>1 loghqam = 1.25 LY = 1.18 x 10^13 km
>
>I don't see any obvious connection to qelI'qam (2km); I wonder, with light
>pretty much being standard everywhere, if klingons also used light for
>measuring long distances as traveled during one of THEIR years.
>Hmmm... 1 DIS = 1.25 years, hmmm. Total speculation here, of coarse.
>
There are many possibilities. The /loghqam/ might be based on distance
of Qo'noS from their sun (like AU's), or on angular measurements (like
parsecs). Or maybe something totally different, like the distance
travelled by the first Klingon warp engine, or the distance from Qo'noS
to the nearest star.
I like this last idea. It's tempting to see /qam/ in these as meaning
something like 'step'. Maybe the /qelI'qam/ was the distance between
forts or marker posts (?/qelI'/ in some dialect of /no' Hol/). So,
/loghqam/ would be a 'space step', the distance between two celestial
objects of importance to the Klingons.
-- ter'eS