tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 28 11:50:42 1997
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Re: [proposal] translation for directions.
> Philippe Lavoie <[email protected]> wrote:-
>> I need to translate north, south, east and west.
>> I came up with the followings
>> north: jenHov (high star) ########
>> south: jenHovQIb (high star shadow) ########
>> east: vemHov (waking star)
>> west: QongHov (sleeping star)
>> I use star because I couldn't find a translation for sun. Maybe I
>> should use Hovmar (our star) instead of just Hov. ...
ja' "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>:
> I saw a suggestion to translate N E S W as {He 0}, {He 90}, {He 180}, {He
>270}. But a lot of times we would need "north" etc as a noun "the region to
>the north of", like with {Dung} and {bIng} etc.
First, {He 000} *is* a noun. It's course #000.
Second, I am usually wary of statements like "a lot of times we would need"
and "I can imagine a situation where". Can you give a real example of what
you are talking about? I'm not sure what your quoted phrase is supposed to
mean. Are you thinking of something like "Tazmania is in Australia's south"?
> ###### If P.Lavoie's email address contains "Ottawa" and ".ca", how come she
>is so obviously in the southern hemisphere!?
I don't see anything obvious about it. If a particular star were to be
identifed as "the high star" I'd expect it to be a circumpolar one, and
circumpolar stars are to the north only in the northern hemisphere. As
I am a native of Earth's northern hemisphere myself, I expect that this
was intended to refer to Polaris, that star which is aligned well with
the Earth's axis and thus does not appear to move as the Earth rotates.
-- ghunchu'wI'