tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 13 06:04:40 1997
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Re: negative integers
- From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: negative integers
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 14:03:03 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
A.Appleyard wrote:-
> If we go a step further: How does Klingon express negative integers, e.g.
> "The apparatus's temperature gauge reads -3." or "It is in position -4."?
<[email protected]> replied:-
> You could try something like wejpa' pagh (three before zero -3) or
> loSpa' pagh (four before zero -4) maybe shortened to wejpa'
That is not legal at the moment. -pa' is a suffix for verbs only: e.g. if
{jatlh} = "he says", then {jatlhpa'} = "before he says". Perhaps put this in
the list of queries and suggestions for Marc Okrand's attention. Another
suffix here could be -Ha': wejHa' = "the reverse of 3", i.e. "-3". But that
also is currently illegal. Or he could provide a word for "-1": if this word
is {Z}, then {Zlogh wej} or {wej Z} would = "-3".