tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 24 21:39:29 2005
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Re: time passes
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: time passes
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:39:15 +1000
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tlhob juDmoS:
>Exactly what canon information do we have as relates
>to Klingon time...that is to say, rough Klingon
>equivalents of a second, minute, hour, day
>(daylight), night, day(24 hr period), week, month,
These ones are easily dealt with:
second: lup
minute: tup
hour: rep
day (daylight): pem
night: ram
day (24-hour period): jaj
week: Hogh (but this is not equivalent to a Terran week; exactly how long a
Klingon week is is anyone's guess)
month: jar (see note on {Hogh})
>season,
There's no canon as far as I know. When I began translating some of "A
Midsummer Night's Dream", I translated "summer" as {tuj poH} "the time of
heat", but that's just me, and I expect other people have their own idioms
for the seasons.
One small fact that may or may not be relevant: There's no verb "to snow" in
Klingon, which leads one to suspect that winter on Qo'noS would be a fairly
mild affair. With that in mind, I'd imagine the seasonal divisions are
somewhat different for Klingons. In northern Australia, where I live, the
division between the four seasons doesn't have a whole lot of relevance,
because winter's not very cold at all - for all practical purposes, we have
two seasons: wet and dry. Maybe Klingon does something similar. Or maybe
not. {{:)
>year,
DIS
>What do we know about the names of the Klingon
>seasons (if any)? names of the Klingon months, if
>any?
Neither of these has been explained in canon AFAIK.
>Any help from any canon source (or non-canon, for
>that matter) is appreciated...
You may or may not already know: perhaps the most useful tool you may ever
learn for describing the passing of time is {qaStaHvIS X} "while X happens",
which is extremely common on the list (and off) for "during X". {qaStaHvIS
Hoghvam, tlhIngan Hol vIghojtaH} "(during) this week, I am learning Klingon"
(although {Hoghvam} alone, as a time stamp, is also OK here); {qaStaHvIS
Soch DIS, ra'wI' jIH} "I have been the commander for seven years". Not
entirely sure whether this is canon, but it's certainly widespread even if
it isn't.
Savan,
QeS lagh
taghwI' pabpo' / Beginners' Grammarian
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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