[84473] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: SanID (number)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doq)
Tue Apr 22 09:31:14 2008
From: Doq <doq@embarqmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <E1JoCMT-0004M5-W0@chain.digitalkingdom.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:48:47 -0400
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
"A Klingon may be inaccurate, but he is NEVER approximate!"
A Klingon would not say, "Thousands of things". He would say "Four
thousand things" and not care if he were off by a few thousand.
Doq
On Apr 22, 2008, at 2:44 AM, Jonathan Webley wrote:
> In TKD, {maH}, {vatlh}, {SaD} and {SanID} are described as "special
> number-forming elements", that is suffixes. The implication is that
> they are
> not words in their own right. For example "Ten" is translated as
> {wa'maH}
> and not {maH}.
>
> But then there seem to be a few examples where they appear as words...
>
> Confused?
>
> Do these words have plurals? How would we say "thousands of things"?
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org [mailto:tlhingan-hol-
>> bounce@kli.org] On
>> Behalf Of Steven Boozer
>> Sent: 21 April 2008 15:14
>> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
>> Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: SanID (number)
>>
>>
>>> 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
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