tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 24 13:37:41 2002
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RE: Terran dates
> > Troop #102 Proudly recognizes J*** M****** For attaining the rank
> > of Eagle. June 3rd, 2002
> > cha'SaD Cha' jar javlogh wejlogh toQ patlh Soqta'mo' J***
> > M****** lughovtaH wey wa'vetlh cha' 'ej luHem
DloraH:
>DIS cha'SaD cha' jar jav jaj wej, ...
>Year 2002 month 6 day 3, ...
>
>Yes, DIS and jar refer to klingon units of time measurement, but most people
>don't have a problem with this. Many (all?) of us use these terms for the
>earth equivalent.
Including Okrand, who added {tera'} in the SkyBox Copyright notice to make
it clear he's referring to Terran years:
TM, R c. je tera' DIS wa'-Hut-Hut-loS. Hoch SeH Paramount Pictures.
TM, R c.1994 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
"Earth year one-nine-nine-four"
Also notice that the numerals of the date are read out separately, not
combined as a full number ("one thousand nine hundred ninety-four") or
grouped in pairs ("nineteen ninety-four"). Okrand also did this in his
example of a stardate, which also appeared on a SkyBox card (S33):
HovpoH Hut vagh cha' wa' vI' jav Dujvam 'aghlu'pu' 'ach Qaw'lu'pu'
"stardate nine five two one point six"
Whether this is how all dates are read aloud is unknown as Okrand has never
given us an example of a true Klingon date, using the Klingon's own dating
system.
BTW, we do have another questionable example from the "Star Trek: The
Experience" opening email announcement. Unfortunately, no one has been
able to verify whether Okrand wrote it. (Has anyone ever asked him?):
tera' poH jaj wa', jar wa', jaj loSDIch, DIS wa'-Hut-Hut-chorgh
Sunday, January 4, 1998
Note that here too, {tera'} precedes the entire string. (If Okrand didn't
write Paramount's "communique", whoever did was aware of the SkyBox example.)
Finally, using this as a model - which is as good as anything else for the
time being - we can render the original date in question:
tera' jar jav, jaj wejDIch, DIS cha'-pagh-pagh-cha'
June 3rd, 2002
"Earth month six, third day, year two-zero-zero-two"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons