tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 04 21:19:58 1997
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RE: KLBC: verb suffix on noun ?
ja' SuStel:
>[email protected] on behalf of Alan Anderson wrote:
>> {vI'} is specifically "decimal point". The dot in "3.3.5" is merely a
>> separator; I think {DoD} is more appropriate here (even if it might be
>> a colloquialism).
>
>{DoD} is specifically "mark (in coordinates)," and we're not talking about
>coordinates. I don't see that either one is correct. Or, to put it another
>way, what makes this use of {DoD} a colloquialism, and a similar use of {vI'}
>not one?
My view is that "mark (in coordinates)" is a separator, and the section
numbering in the dictionary can be considered as coordinates. {DoD} is
arguably appropriate here; I hope everyone can accept the argument as a
valid one, even if they disagree with it. A decimal point indicates the
boundary between integer and fraction parts in a digital representation
of numbers, and while the section labels do follow a numerical sequence,
they aren't really numbers. And there is *never* more than one decimal
point in a number.
I've got no problems pronouncing an IP address like 128.0.0.1 as
{wa' cha' chorgh DoD pagh DoD pagh DoD wa'}. Most people pronounce this
use of "." with the word "dot", not "point".
-- ghunchu'wI'