[84459] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: SanID (number)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Apr 21 10:15:56 2008
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:14:03 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, April 21, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: SanID
>Part of Speech: number
>Definition: thousand
Used in canon:
vagh SanID ben buDbe' wamwI'pu'.
5,000 years ago, hunters were not lazy. (st.klingon 11/99)
TKD 53: 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.
Klingons may {SaD} and {SanID} with roughly equal frequency, but Okrand
definitely prefers {SaD} in canon:
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
vaghSaD DeQ HInob
Give me 5,000 credits! PK
chorghSaD qelI'qam HIvchuq'e' vInoH
Estimating attack range in 8,000 kellicams. ST5
wa'SaD
one thousand STC:KLS
vaghSaD wejvatlh loSmaH Soch
5,347 STC:KLS
wejvatlh SochmaH vagh SaD cheb'a'mey ngI' Duj
Mass: 8.7 KT. KBoP
SaD DIS poH
millennium (HQ 8.3:3)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
