[87414] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Klingon Draydels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Dec 2 13:00:18 2009
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:58:57 -0600
In-Reply-To: <f60fe000912020952x30442393v45c62c5f2471550b@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
ter'eS:
>> Does the order of the letters on the dreidel match the order of
>> the sentence, or can you mix them up?
marqoS:
>On the ones I've seen the order does indeed match the sentence - right
>to left, to match the direction of Hebrew writing. So in the
>counterclockwise direction as seen from the top they are in order NUN
>GIMEL HE SHIN (except with PE instead of SHIN on Israeli dreidels).
I.e. Hebrew PO' "here" for the benefit of the non-Jews on the list: NES GADOL HAYAH PO' "a great miracle happened here". <g>
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Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
