tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 19 11:09:33 1997
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Re: latlh Hov vISuch
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: latlh Hov vISuch
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:08:13 -0500
At 11:02 PM 9/18/97 -0700, peHruS wrote:
>In a message dated 97-09-11 13:08:29 EDT, ter'eS writes:
>
><< 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? >>
>
>In Chinese the numbering system ends at "wan" meaning 10,000. Then, we say
>shi-wan (10 x 10,000) to mean 100,000; then bai-wan (100 x 10,000) to say
>1,000,000; then qian-wan (1,000 x 10,000) to say 10,000,000; then wan-wan
>(10,000 x 10,000) to not only mean 100,000,000 but any number large enough to
>be termed "zillion".
>
So maybe you could say {wejmaHlogh wa''uy' qelI'qam 'aD HeDaj} for "His
course was 30,000,000 kellicams long"?
-- ter'eS
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