tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 20 04:36:34 2005
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Re: Subtle shadings of "then": Okrand's error ?
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Subtle shadings of "then": Okrand's error ?
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 07:35:43 EDT
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In a message dated 5/20/2005 12:59:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> >Only a cursory listening to the audiotape "Power Klingon" can tell you
> >that..(twenty-one o'clock?).
>
> In the 24-hour time system, 21 o'clock is 9 pm. It's often done this way in
> a lot of languages (usually, European ones), including French: "vingt et une
> heures". I'm not sure that this is necessarily an error.
>
>
It's an error because he gives the English as 12:00, then gives the Klingon
equivalent of 2100 hours.
lay'tel SIvten