tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 20 08:23:37 1997
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Re: chaq jIjegh
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: chaq jIjegh
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 11:23:34 -0500 (EST)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>(message from Steven Boozer on Sat, 18 Jan 1997 20:02:43 -0800)
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>Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 20:02:43 -0800
>From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
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>Bearing that in mind, Okrand's approach is perfectly understandable. For,
>as much as we might pretend otherwise, ALL speakers of Klingon live on
>*this* planet and, therefore, need to be able to tell the time, schedule
>their next fan club meeting, ask how long it is until the next Hov leng
>qep'a', etc.
Indeed. It may simply be the "correct" usage for Terran speakers in a
terran environment. I'm sure that in actual conversation (as opposed
perhaps to in a book or translation), all Klingon speakers use "Hogh" for
seven days, "DIS" for 365.24.... days, "jaj" for 24h, etc. Doesn't mean
it's how Klingons use it, but how they might on Earth. Even as I might
refer to "days" if I lived on a planet with a 28h rotation, and mean 28h.
~mark
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