tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 23 07:28:25 1999
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Re: cardinal directions
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: cardinal directions
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:28:04 -0600
>Re: Cardinal Directions (to Marc Okrand) ("Marc Okrand" , Sun 23:53)
>
[...]
>There are three nouns for these principal points. The
>translations of these words using terminology familiar to
>the Federation are a little awkward, but they give an idea
>of the meanings:
>
> chan "area eastward" or "area towards the east"
>
> 'ev "area northwestward" or "area towards the
>northwest"
>
> tIng "area southwestward" or "area towards the
>southwest"
>
>While the four main compass points used in the Federation
>(north, east, south, west) are distributed evenly (that is,
>they are 90 degrees apart from each other: north is 90
>degrees away from east, east is 90 degrees away from south,
>and so on), this is not the case in the Klingon system.
>The three directions are not evenly spaced (that is, they
>are not 120 degrees apart from each other). Instead, the
>areas associated with <'ev> and <tIng> are closer to each
>other than either is to the area associated with <chan>.
>(The areas associated with <'ev> and <tIng> are something
>like 100 degrees apart from each other, and each is 130
>degrees away from the area associated with <chan>.)
>
If you put <chan> at the top of your map, then the compass
rose for the three cardinal points looks remarkably like the
Klingon trefoil!
-- ter'eS
http://www.geocities.com/teresh_2000