tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 16 14:23:14 2006
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Re: Negative numbers
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Negative numbers
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:23:00 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Cassandra, ja':
>There is no reference to negative numbers in the Klingon Dictionary or the
>updated wordlist on the site. It may be in Klingon for the Galactic
>Traveller, but theres not much of a chance of that.
No, there's nothing in KGT about it.
>Perhaps try saying nothing minus one or whatever number. Or perhaps just
>say minus then the number.
In the absence of a canon way of doing it, unfortunately any suggestion I
could make would be speculative and would require some imagination on the
part of the listener. {pagh boqHa'bogh wa''e'} "one which is taken away from
zero"? {pagh nungbogh wa''e'} "one which precedes zero"? I'm very
dissatisfied with both.
>In Australia thats how we say minus one more often than negative one, so
>saying it in klingon should be acceptable.
AustraliaDaq veng DaDabbogh yIngu'! Brisbane vIDab jIH.
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
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