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Re: mI'mey 'ay'mey

MorphemeAddict ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol taghwI']

'e' vIpIH.  cha'logh jIghel:
1) {bID bID} lo'lu''a'?  {wej bID}  joq?
2) <ghIlghameS> vIlaDtaHvIS,

---<voDleH jIH!>
---wejmaH wej vatlhvI' Human, javmaH jav vatlhvI' Qun

vIta'pu'.  napqu'mo' 'ej ngajmo' {cha' 'ay' Human, wa' 'ay' Qun} vaj vImaS.  

lay'tel SIvten

In a message dated 2004-09-13 10:58:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> attempts to express
> >fractions in general.  Do we have a way to do this?
> 
> Not officially.  {bID} "half" is the closest thing to a fraction we have.
> 
> 
> SPECULATION ALERT!
> 
> 1) Some have wondered if {vI'} "decimal point" can be used to form=20
> fractions, reading {vatlhvI'} "percent" alternatively as "hundredth" (fro=
> m=20
> {vatlh} "hundred").  E.g. *(loSvI'} "fourth, quarter".  But since this is=
> =20
> only speculation, we should continue to use percentages [snipped]
> 
> 2) Searching for "fraction" in my notes, I found this in Okrand's article=
> =20
> in HolQeD 9.3 on how to read simple math equations:
> 
>    6 =F7 3 =3D 2
>    wejlogh boqHa''egh jav; chen cha'
>    "three times, six dissociates from itself, two forms"
> 
>    Reversing the dividend and the divisor changes the equation. {javlogh
>    boqHa''egh wej} would be 3 =F7 6 and the answer would be a fraction...
> 
> And by an amazing coincidence, that fraction is {bID} "half" (i.e. 3/6 =3D=
> =20
> 1/2), the only Klingon fraction we know!
> 
> {javlogh boqHa''egh wej} *might* be a more mathematical/technical way of=20
> reading out a fraction, akin to English "three over six".
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --=20
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons=20
> 
>

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