tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 13 18:17:13 2002
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Re: KLBC: Higher numbers
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From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
> I think Maltz is playing a practical joke on Okrand.
[--snipped--] That's not linguistics, that's physics.
> Yes, I don't usually convert between centimeters
> and kilometers, but I CAN. I can also convert
> between inches and miles. And we CAN express
> fractional distances in Klingon, at a variety of scales.
Just a comment but although I agree any linear measure must be able to
convert into another and you quote cm to M and inches to miles but I would
imagine that most people if given inches would convert to Miles rather than
Kilometers.
Perhaps that's what he means (joke or not) that one is from a different
measure system than the other and Klingons just don't compare the two.
[--snipped--]
> SuStel
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