tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 02 12:23:17 1999
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Re: time
- From: "'oghwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: time
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:31:34 -0000
ja' muHwI'
>Greetings.
>I've been thinking about what Marc Okrand said about telling time.
>
>In his {'arlogh Qoylu'pu'}-message he said that hours are labeled, not
>conted, thus {rep wa'} and so on.
>Okay.
>On conversational Klingon he says "zero hours", midnight, is {pagh rep};
>1900 hours, seven p.m. is {wa'maH Hutvatlh rep} and so on.
>
>So what??
>
>Another question: The answer to {'arlogh Qoylu'pu'} is usually
>{chorghlogh} (here for "eight o'clock"). Do we know how to say 7:15
>p.m.?? According to CK, I would say {wa'maHHutvatlh wa'maHvagh rep}, but
>that now seems to be wrong...
>Power Klingon gives us this:
>"check-out time is five p.m."
>{vagh rep bImejnIS}
>
>But looking at the new rule, I would say
>{vaghlogh Qoy'lu'pu' bImejnISDI'} or
>{rep vagh bImejnIS} or
>{qaStaHvIS rep vagh bImejnIS}
>
>comments?
I think I remember someone suggesting that one way is a military system for
time keeping and the other is used only on Qo'noS. This would justify the
two ways.
>muHwI'
'oghwI'
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