tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 18 09:49:38 1997
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RE: chaq jIjegh
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: chaq jIjegh
- Date: Sat, 18 Jan 97 17:42:26 UT
January 18, 1997 1:38 AM EST, jatlh Kenneth Traft:
> I believe that on the Conversational Klingon tape. Measurements of time are
> equivelant to earth time (24 hours). It's not that "far fetched" to believe
> that the other types of rotations are similiar. Very coincidental, but not
> far fetched!
I can certainly accept that Klingons have adopted Terran 24-hour time. That's
not hard to believe. And the language associated with it makes sense.
"Seventeen-hundred hours" becomes {wa'maH Soch vatlh rep}, which is really a
word-for-word translation; something one might accept from a borrowed system.
But the point is not that Klingon planets have a similar rotational period to
Earth. That's silly. There's no way I'll believe they all have the same
rotational period and the same revolutionary period as Earth. These planets
*have* to have their own local time-telling systems. I've always believed
that entries in TKD like {Hogh} and {DIS} were referring to the calendar of
{Qo'noS} or some other Klingon planet. They say "(Klingon)." If Okrand is
really writing the text of these entries, then he's becoming very sloppy
indeed!
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