tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 12 11:20:25 1997
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Re: latlh Hov vISuch
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: latlh Hov vISuch
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:16:12 -0500
At 09:11 AM 9/12/97 -0700, SI'IluD wrote:
>I looked at the word {netlh}, ten thousand,
>and
>concluded that we're not allowed to put two-digit numbers before a
>"place-marker".
>That is, 22,000 has to be {cha'netlh cha'SaD} and not *{cha'maH cha'SaD}.
>So, I wrote {wejmaH wa''uy'} above, but I don't mean "31 million" but "30
>counts
>of one million", i.e., "30 million". Any ideas?
><<<
>
>We do have some precedent for this in the telling of time. You do say
><cha'maH cha'vatlh rep> for 2200 hours (10pm). I don't know if that
>can qualify for a general pattern of use for the numbers though.
I don't think we can extrapolate from the one to the other. Telling
time seems to me to be a special application of the numbers.
> I would
>understand in your context the word <wejmaH'uy'> as 30,000,000. Before
>I had read your summary, I thought you did mean 31,000,000!
>
I know that is the problem with {wejmaH wa''uy'}, and I'd be happy to
use {wejmaH'uy'} if I could shake the feeling that it really isn't
allowed.
-- ter'eS
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