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Re: Klingon WOTD: SanID (number)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: SanID (number)
• Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:45:50 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, January 4, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   SanID
>Part of Speech: number
>Definition:     thousand

Used once in canon:

   vagh SanID ben buDbe' wamwI'pu'
   5,000 years ago, hunters were not lazy. (st.klingon 11/99)

The variant form {SaD} appears more often in canon:

   chorghSaD qelI'qam HIvchuq 'e' vInoH
   Estimating attack range in 8,000 kellicams. (ST5)

   qaStaHvIS wa' ram loS SaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD
   4,000 throats may be cut in one night by a running man. (TKD)

   cha'SaD DeQ
   2000 credits (PK)

   vaghSaD DeQ HInob
   Give me 5,000 credits! (PK)

   wa'SaD
   one thousand (ST Continuum: KLS)

   vaghSaD wejvatlh loSmaH Soch
   5,347  (ST Continuum: KLS)

   wejvatlh SochmaH vagh SaD cheb'a'mey ngI' Duj
   Mass: 8.7 KT. (KBoP)

The reason for the existence of two forms is unknown:

   Both {SaD} and {SanID} are equally correct for "thousand", and
   both are used with roughly equal frequency. It is not known why
   this number alone has two variants.  [TKD p.53]



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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