tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 01 12:56:15 2000
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Re: KLBC: calculate in Klingon
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: calculate in Klingon
- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 15:56:38 -0500
>Why {*tI*chel}, not {yIchel}? 324.56 is a single number.
3+4=7 : you have three apples, you add four more apples...
If we wrote "three apples" it would be treated as plural and one would have
to use tI-. If we drop the unnecessary noun "apple", would we still treat
it as plural or does it become a grammatical singular?
>: jIQochbe'. Except I would just put the numerals instead of writing out
>: the numbers: 9288.3logh 324.56 tIchel.
>
> And I certainly agree
>that writing numerals is easier than words.
It doesn't matter if we spell out the words or use the number symbols, we
are only representing the "spoken" klingon language.
DloraH