[86124] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon cardinal directions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Mon Jun 29 14:40:39 2009
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:36:43 EDT
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In a message dated 6/29/2009 11:15:07 Eastern Daylight Time,
sboozer@uchicago.edu writes:
> While the four main compass points used in the Federation (north, east,
> south, west) are distributed evenly (that is, they are 90 degrees apart from
> each other: north is 90 degrees away from east, east is 90 degrees away
> from south, and so on), this is not the case in the Klingon system. The three
> directions are not evenly spaced (that is, they are not 120 degrees apart
> from each other). Instead, the areas associated with {'ev} and {tIng} are
> closer to each other than either is to the area associated with {chan}. (The
> areas associated with {'ev} and {tIng} are something like 100 degrees
> apart from each other, and each is 130 degrees away from the area associated
> with {chan}.)
>
Can {chanvo'} (from the east) be used for "westward" then?
lay'tel SIvten
