tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 23 21:17:57 2000
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RE: mI'mey
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: RE: mI'mey
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:17:29 -0400 (EDT)
Somebody:
> > If the number is zero plus two decimal places (e.g. 0.25), then you have a
> > percentage and can use {vatlhvI'} instead:
> >
> > cha'maH vagh vatlhvI' Hong - QIt yIghoS!
> > Slow to one quarter impulse power. ST5
> > (lit. "Twenty five percent impulse power - proceed slowly!")
[email protected]:
> chay' mu'tlheghvetlh rurbe' : cha'maH vaghvatlh vI' Hong;
> DIvI' Hol mu'mey latlh lo'DI'lu' : "2,500. impulse power" ?
I think there's a difference, because /*cha'maH vaghvatlh/ is
not a legal number in Klingon. To say 2500, a Klingon would
always say /cha'SaD vaghvatlh/ or /cha'SanID vaghvatlh/.
In English "twenty five hundred" is understood to mean "two
thousand five hundred", but it isn't the case for all languages,
and there is no indication that it is so for Klingon. (For example,
in Chinese, "twenty five hundred" might sound like a wierd way
of saying "five hundred and twenty" if it were understood at all.)
I think /*cha'maH vaghvatlh/ "twenty five hundred" would sound
as wierd to a Klingon as "ten hundred" (rather than "one thousand")
or "one thousand hundred" (rather than "one hundred thousand")
would sound to an English speaker.
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