tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 26 18:16:04 2000
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Re: talking about the degree of quality of something
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: talking about the degree of quality of something
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:08:04 -0600
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
charghwI':
> As has been pointed out, we don't have any units of measure
> for temperature, so we can only describe how something is
> hot or cold and what it resembles.
De'vID:
: Then was the word <Hat> ever used in canon?
No, unfortunately.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that there is a totally unrelated
verb that means "have a temperature of" analogous to other verbs of
measurement Maltz has slowly revealed on startrek.klingon: {juch} "have a
width of", {'aD} and {'ab} "have a length of", {Saw'} "have a depth of",
{muq} "have a volume of".
There is a verb {juv} "measure" which "refers to the action of somebody who
is taking a measurement" (MO on st.k 10/97). E.g. {naQjej vIjuv} "I
measure the spear." We don't know if this only refers to measuring
physical dimensions of tangible objects - which I suspect it does - or if
you can ask {cha'pujqut choH pa'Hom Hat Dajuvpu''a'} "Have you taken
[measure] the temperature of the dilithium crystal reaction chamber yet?"
Not that we have any way at the moment to give a precise, non-approximate
answer to that question other than yes/no/not yet, which could be critical
in an Treknological emergency.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons