[1597] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: mI'QeD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 5 16:02:16 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (The Songbringer -- Marnen to the common fol
k)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 15:56:11 EDT
In-Reply-To: <01H3QLGWMOHA8Y7NG5@delphi.com>; from "DSTRADER@delphi.com" at Oct
5, 93 3:51 am
jatlh DSTRADER@delphi.com:
[...]
: Thus the new group of words indicating powers of ten less than 10^0:
: 10^-1 maHvI', 1/10
: 10^-2 vatlhvI', 1/100
: 10^-3 SanIDvI', 1/1000
: 10^-4 netlhvI', 1/10000
: 10^-5 bIpvI', 1/100000
: 10^-6 'uy'vI', 1/1000000
:
:
: Also, value words (1-9) might also be able to take -vI'.
: cha'vI' 1/2
: wejvI' 1/3
: loSvI' 1/4
: vaghvI' 1/5
: etc....
:
: Of course, there is a word bID meaning "half" in TKD. I would accept
: this as an irregularity, equivalent to cha'vI', just a more common
: ly used term.
ngerlij viparHa'! However, I think it's a bit dangerous to add new morphemes
without Okrand's approval. I'm not trying to be a purist, but the fact is that
Klingon is irregular enough that it's hard to know when to exploit an apparent
pattern. However, I like this and will probably adopt it in my own Klingon
writing as an interim solution.....
[...]
: He just wanted to leave it up to the faithful
: tlhIngan Hol HaDwI', just like he left it up us to figure out that
: {tlhaq}, the word for "chronometer," is really "clock."
And notice the phonetic resemblance between "tlhaq" and "clock".
:
: ngerwIj yIqel
: Guido#1 ---*
:
: ghItlh 'o' (P.S.)-
: Does any think that {cherHa'be'ghachnganqech}="Antidisestablishmentarianism?"
: cher establish
: Ha' dis
: be' anti
: ghach ment
: ngan arian
: qech ism
:
: Never mind...
:
:
Dochvam je viparHa'. ;> (btw, "postscript" should be >'o' ghitlh<, not >ghitlh
'o'<.
Qapla' Qichqemwi'vo'.
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