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chaDvay'

• From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
• Subject: chaDvay'
• Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 15:49:07 -0800
• Organization: Zytor Communications
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From the New Klingon Word list:

chaDvay'
(n) Hertz (frequency) [from veS QonoS, HolQeD, v1n3p9]

This strikes me as very odd.

Why would Klingons have a word for 86,400 times the frequency of the
revolution of the planet Earth around its own axis?  If it was a borrowed
word, it would be one thing, but it doesn't look like it...

Or is this a mistake on part of the translator, and this is meant to
represent "the inverse of the Klingon time unit most closely corresponding
to a human second?"  Do we know anything about Klingon time keeping anyway?

	-hpa

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