[86125] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon cardinal directions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fiat Knox)
Mon Jun 29 15:26:47 2009
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:23:40 +0000 (GMT)
From: Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
So, shaped roughly like the Klingon trefoil, then?
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Alex.
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--- On Mon, 29/6/09, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
> From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: Klingon cardinal directions
> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> Date: Monday, 29 June, 2009, 7:36 PM
> 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
>
>
>
>
