tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 17 12:26:33 1993
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Fractions (was: Re: Between) REPOST
- From: [email protected] (The Songbringer -- Marnen to the common folk)
- Subject: Fractions (was: Re: Between) REPOST
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 93 14:54:57 EDT
jatlh HoD Qanqor:
[quote from ~mark]
: Well, I'm not so sure about generalizing -vI'. Not the least bit
: sure. However, I do not feel that, lacking such a suffix, that we
: are wholly without the ability to do fractions. Were I to need a
: fraction, I would use DoD. Perhaps I am dealing from ignorance, but
: isn't the "mark" in "course 111 mark 14" the same as a decimal
: point? A decimal point lets us do a vast wealth of fractions.
There are numerous (hypothetical) ways to do fractions; 3/5 could be
>wej vaghDaq<, or (based somewhat on Japanese) >wej vagh'ay'<, or, as
~mark suggests, >wej vaghvi'(mey?)<, or >(pagh) DoD jav<, or >wej vagh
wavghachmey<, or even >vagh wej wavghachmey<! Given time, I suppose I
could think up some more. I guess what we need to do here is figure
out how Klingons would likely do fractions themselves, and looked at
from that perspective, though I _really_ don't want to get into
unsanctioned affixes (especially not on the basis of a word or two --
tlhH is very irregular in that respect), using a suffix for a fraction
seems very Klingon. If we go with that, I propose >-vi'< or even
(*barf, barf*) >wav<.
:
: Extra credit (10 points): Identify course 111.14.
:
nuqjatlh jay'?
: --Krankor
:
:
Qapla' Qichqengwi'vo'.
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