tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 27 07:05:24 1998
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Re: mathematics
- From: "Qermaq" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: mathematics
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:06:28 -0500
ghItlh QetlhIS:
>Is it a mere coincidence that the klingon verb order that
><subj> divides <obj> is being placed <obj> <divide> <subject>,
>which actually matches the mathematical notation.
mu'mey latlh lo'chugh,
*wejlogh Hut wav wej*
But what divides nine things? A number or someone doing the division? Nice
thought - wish it could be that simple. Hey, we might discover that it is...
>What about words like <nge'> for "minus" and I might be
>wrong but I always thought the adverb <rur> would do fine for
>a multiplication, but that may be a confuzzlemixup of a non-native
>English speaker reading TKD :)
I think <nge'> is one of the words in the HolQeD article. But we couldn't
say the old Sesame Street phrase "5 take away 3 is 2". But we could say
<vaghvo' wej nge'chugh cha' tu'lu'>.
Confuzzlemixup - indeed! <rur> is a verb "resemble> Perhaps you're thinking
of <rut> "sometimes"? That's the same as "Every once in a while" or
"Discontinuously", as in <rut Qap De'wI'wIj> "My computer works
discontinually"
Hee hee hee...
Qermaq