tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 07 07:26:44 1997
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Re: East, West
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: East, West
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 97 08:42:57 EST
maq peHruS:
>At least I have found out how to say "southwest":
>voSpegh Sep lurgh vIghoS
>And, "east" is:
>Sa'Qej Sep lurgh vIghoS
veng wa'DIchvo' neH bIghoSchugh lugh lurghmeyvam.
Qotmagh Sepvo' bIlengchugh, muj.
tera'Daq SoHtaHchugh, mujchu'!
These terms would only work if you started your trip from the First
City on Kronos. They're useless if you want to tell someone how to
get from Indianapolis to Dayton.
>Now for more directions and measurements???
qatlh potlh lurgh? nuq DaghoS DaneH?
ghoch'e' yIngu'!
Just say where you're going. Who cares what the direction is?
nuq Dajuv DaneH? tInqu''a' 'uj? machqu''a' qelI'qam?
toH, chaq 'aDbe' Doch Dotlh Dajuvbogh.
muq qoj ngI' 'e' DaDel DaneH'a'?
vaj bIlugh. DaHjaj mu'meyvam Hutlhlaw' mu'tay'.
'ach "meter", "slug", "liter" joq vIlo'qangchu' jIH.
bIQum DaneH qar'a'?
tlhegh wIDelmeH, maja'laH: chong. SaS. taH. :-) 'a mI' DIlo'laHbe'.
HurghlaH Hov. wovlaH. wewlaH. 'a DelmeH, mI' DIlo'laHbe'.
woj 'ul ghap wIjuvchugh, chay' wIDel? Dachlaw' qechmeyvam latlh je.
What's wrong with ujes and kellicams? Oh, you're probably talking
about things like weight and volume, units for which are indeed not
in the lexicon. Yet. (But why bother doing unit conversion? Just
use terms we're familiar with; the metric system is quite useful.
You *are* trying to *communicate*, right?) And we don't have ways
to talk quantitatively about angles, brightness, radiation,
electrical current, etc.
-- ghunchu'wI'