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Re: Klingon WOTD: tIng (noun)

Parker Glynn-Adey ([email protected])



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> Additional Notes:
> HolQeD 8:4, p. 6.  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 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}.)


Does anyone know why this is? Is there a cultural or political reason why
Klingons were mostly headed {'ev} and {tlng}?

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