tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 04 13:10:03 1996

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Re: time

• From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: time
• Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:09:59 -0500 (EST)
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]> ([email protected])

>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 11:26:30 -0800
>From: [email protected]

>For "What time is it?", how about?:
>    DaHjaj qaSpu' rep 'ar?
>(Literally, "How many hours have passed today?")

>That would be the full form, but usually <DaHjaj> could be omitted:
>    qaSpu' rep 'ar?

Neat!  An expansion for my elliptical form (req 'ar?), hitherto without
support.

OK, it still has no support.  But at least I can claim it's an abbreviation
of something that makes sense.

~mark

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