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Re: Klingon WOTD: SanID (number)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: SanID (number)
• Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:14:03 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, April 21, 2008.
>
>Klingon word:   SanID
>Part of Speech: number
>Definition:     thousand

Used in canon:

   vagh SanID ben buDbe' wamwI'pu'.
   5,000 years ago, hunters were not lazy. (st.klingon 11/99)

TKD 53:  Both {SaD} and {SanID} are equally correct for "thousand", and 
both are used with roughly equal frequency. It is not known why this number 
alone has two variants.

Klingons may {SaD} and {SanID} with roughly equal frequency, but Okrand 
definitely prefers {SaD} in canon:

   qaStaHvIS wa' ram loS SaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD
   4,000 throats may be cut in one night by a running man. TKD

   cha'SaD DeQ
   2000 credits

   vaghSaD DeQ HInob
   Give me 5,000 credits! PK

   chorghSaD qelI'qam HIvchuq'e' vInoH
   Estimating attack range in 8,000 kellicams. ST5

   wa'SaD
   one thousand STC:KLS

   vaghSaD wejvatlh loSmaH Soch
   5,347 STC:KLS

   wejvatlh SochmaH vagh SaD cheb'a'mey ngI' Duj
   Mass: 8.7 KT. KBoP

   SaD DIS poH
   millennium (HQ 8.3:3)



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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