tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 12 10:27:59 2002
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RE: Years IR
Se'noj asks:
>I was wondering how to say "Imperial Reckoning" (The tlhIngan AD equivalent)
>I already know the formula to get the year (AD - 625), I got this from
>Star Trek: Klingon Academy, but I cannot find a way to say it in tlhIngan Hol
For "reckon" use {SIm} "calculate"; {togh} "count" also works. A
"reckoning" is a {SImmeH mIw} "procedure/process for calculating" or
{toghmeH mIw} "procedure/process for counting". Thus, {tlhIngan wo' SImmeH
mIw} "Klingon Imperial reckoning", etc.
Instead of an unwieldy literal translation, the simplest equivalent would
be "Imperial Date", but we don't know how to say "date". (In some
contexts, {jaj} "day" or {poH} "period of time" works, but not here.) The
best I can come up with is {wo' 'ISjaH} "Imperial calendar" or just {wo'
DIS} "Imperial year". You could contrast these with the {DIvI' 'ISjaH}
"Federation calendar" or {DIvI' DIS} "Federation year".
Yet another tack would be to use {HovpoH} "stardate" as a model and say
something like *{wo'poH} Empiredate". Although it looks ugly, it does
parallel {HovpoH} nicely and would probably work for the purposes of the game.
--
Voragh "All the meaning is in the context."
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons (Ilya Kabakov, Russian artist)