[1880] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Words not found in TKD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 27 13:57:15 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: geno@nevada.edu (EuGene epetai-Tramaglino)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 10:47:22 -0700
Marnen, the Songbringer (laibow@brick.purchase.edu) said:
: chaDvay hertz (frequency) (n)
I think you mean >chaDvay'<. Unanalyzable.
Since I know how many of you *love* non-canon speculations... Am I
the only one who thinks this looks like vatlhvI'?
That was the hint. More below. ^L for puzzle-lovers...
There was some speculation a while ago about -vI' as a generic
reciprocal marker, rather than just for vatlh + -vI' = percent.
Well, Hertz is a measurement of cycles *per* second. In a flight of
fancy, one might think -vI' for unit reciprocals, -vay' for time
reciprocals.
Of course, Hertz is a Terran measurement. How long is a Klingon
second? (Sounds like a proverb in the making: idiomatic Klingon for
"living on the edge".)
Geno
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