tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 07 10:43:00 1999
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RE: RE: HoghwIj nI'
- From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: RE: HoghwIj nI'
- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:22:59 -0700
> On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:12:59 -0500 David Trimboli
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > jatlh charghwI':
> > > It was the first method of time he gave us and the only one that
> > > explicitly explains how to express portions of an hour.
> >
> > Explicit? I don't believe Okrand has EVER told how to express portions
of
> > an hour. Adding half-hours and such to the Conversational Klingon
method of
> > describing time is merely a logical extension of the rule; Okrand never
> > addresses it. (If he does somewhere, I've forgotten. Please enlighten
me
> > as to the source.)
>
> bIqar, jupwI'. HIvqa' veqlargh! I thought I remembered him
> doing at least one partial hour, but I just went back and
> checked my transcription and it apparently never happened.
> I think that with the time given as "military time" others
> on the list in the military suggested the "twelve hundred
> thirty hours" as the way to say "12:30". It made sense and
> we accepted it.
We do have *one* example, in the post from Okrand, in the context of
military time-telling.
tera' rep loS wejmaH
"Earth hour 4:30"
(<loS> "four," <wejmaH> "30")
> charghwI'
> De'wI'vaD Hovjaj nab vIHutlh
--Holtej 'utlh
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