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BoP-Daq, CK-Daq joq mI'mey Huj noblu'bogh

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

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• Subject: BoP-Daq, CK-Daq joq mI'mey Huj noblu'bogh
• Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:51:08 EDT

From BoP poster:
  {wejvatlh SochmaH vagh SaD cheb'a'mey ngI' Duj}
  Mass: 8.7KT
I assume that {wejvatlh SochmaH vagh SaD} is equal to {wejbIp Sochnetlh 
vaghSaD} (375000) because of a presumed English/Western bias with numbers.  But if 
taken literally it looks like it should equal 300 + 70 + 5000, or 5370.  

This sort of bias also occurs on CK in the context of telling time:
[mo] Noon or "twelve hundred hours": {cha'maH wa'vatlh rep} [lit.: 
"twenty-one hundred hours". Should have been {wa'maH cha'vatlh rep}.]
[mo] Seven p.m. or "nineteen hundred hours" {wa'maH Hutvatlh rep}

Is this way of writing numbers used in general, or do people use netlh, bIp, 
and 'uy'?  I know that ghunchu'wI' used {cha'vatlh 'uy'}, which does both, for 
200,000,000 in a "jatmey" story, but I don't see any alternative, since we 
don't have number-forming elements greater than million.

And I know that some or all of this has been discussed here before, but I 
don't know when.

lay'tel SIvten

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