tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 06 22:38:07 1999

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RE: for pagh (KLBC)

Sorry for the strange email address - I am posting from my sister in law's 
account - pagh

jatlh ngenDa' la':

>>>>>

Sir,

Regarding your last batch of helpful criticisms....Thank you! Babies must
learn how to roll over before they can ever think of getting up on their
hands-and-knees and move into crawling which leads to walking which leads
to...well you get the idea. You have *corrected* me quite a bit on my
grammer (which I sorely needed!) and I don't want you to think it isn't
appreciated. But now I have a question about birthdays. How would you
construct someone's birthday? There aren't any months translated into
Klingon (that I've seen) and what sort of year would one use? A stardate
(see Dave Trimboli for that!) or a standard B.C./A.D. sort of thing? For
example: I was born on the 13th day of the 7th month in the 1,962nd year of
this A.D. calendar. Or are we Klingon students using a different calendar?
It's just a thought/question.

ngenDa' la'

>>>>>

We don't know much about the calendar ('ISjaH) used by Klingons. We do know 
that they have days (jajmey), weeks (Hoghmey), months (jarmey), and years 
(DISmey). What we do not know is the length of these various periods, any 
specific names they might have, or any numbering system used with them. We 
also know about a few Klingon holidays (e.g. QI'lop, Empire Union Day), but 
not when the occur.

The best thing to do is probably just use Terran dates. There is not really a 
consistent way to format dates like this, but here's how I generally do it:

tera' DIS wa'SaD Hutvatlh HutmaH Hut, jar chorgh, jaj jav.  -or-
tera' DIS 1999, jar 8, jaj 6.

Note that when a number follows a noun, it acts as a label, so I am saying 
"Terran year 1999, month number 8, day number 6".

Marc Okrand (we think; we're not sure) provided a way to do Terran dates in 
the press release for the Star Trek Experience that is different from this, 
but not completely dissimilar.


pagh
Beginners' Grammarian

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