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Re: Subtle shadings of "then": Okrand's error ?

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



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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






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