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Re: Decimal numbers on the BoP poster (KBP)

• From: Minots <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Decimal numbers on the BoP poster (KBP)
• Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 16:34:30 -0600

ghItlh ter'eS
>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.


I'd like to point out the etymology of "mile": The Roman word was "milia
pasuum," meaning "thousand paces."

Dubejbej loDnI''a'
qoror

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