tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 17 09:12:52 1993
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Re: Between
- From: Will Martin <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Between
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 16:50:46 EDT
[for expressing 111.14]
> What about using:
>
> wa'vatlh wa'maH wa' ej wa'maH loS wav vatlh
>
> or
>
> wa'vatlh wa'maH wa' ej vatlh wav wa'maH loS
In the first place, "'ej" combines sentences and a number standing on
its own is not a sentence. Next, saying that fourteen divides hundred or that
hundred divides fourteen doesn't really carry the meaning of fourteen
hundredths. For that, I would expect to say:
wa'vatlh wa'maH wa' wa'maH loS vatlhvI' je
Yes, it's ugly, but anything else is speculation. That's the only way I know
to express the number. I initially thought that having the conjunction follow
the two numbers gives the potential for MAJOR confusion, but when I tried
coming up with an example, most of what I thought was ambiguous wasn't. Then
again...
110.01 and 100.11...
wa'vatlh wa'maH wa' vatlhvI' je
Maybe if you just kinda paused a little before or after the wa'?
Anyway, we are weak on fractions. Half and Percent seem to be all we are
told how to express, so how do we measure thousanths? Maybe Klingons just
change to a smaller unit of measure? qelI'qam is the only unit of distance
measure I've ever heard a Klingon use, and who knows how far THAT is?
-- charghwI'