tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 17 14:33:19 2002
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Re: What does the numbers in the stardate stand for?
>From: "Captain Krankor" <[email protected]>
>> cha'SaD wejvatlh SochmaH cha'. As for how to do the .8, I'm not sure
>> we know for sure (someone please correct me if I've missed something
>> on this topic).
ja' SuStel:
>I believe we've seen exactly that in one of Okrand's Skybox card
>translations of a Stardate! See below for an example of how it is done. I
>don't know if this applies to regular numbers. (You don't say "Stardate two
>thousand, three hundred seventy-two point eight," you say "Stardate
>twenty-three seventy-two point eight" or "Stardate two three seven two point
>eight." The Klingon seems to do the same thing, at least in Okrand's
>example.)
Okrand's translation of Terran years is just a string of digits as well.
The Skybox cards render 1994 as {wa'-Hut-Hut-loS}. Apparently calendar
years and Stardates are treated as simple labels, not as full-fledged large
numbers.
[The cards render 1995 as {wa'-Hut-Hut-loS} too, but that's beside the point.]
-- ghunchu'wI'