[89430] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Arithmetic Using Units of Measure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gaerfindel)
Mon Sep 5 16:37:14 2011
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:26:04 -0400
From: Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On 9/5/2011 5:19 AM, Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh wrote:
> ghItlhpu' quljIb, jatlh:
>> We know how to say 7 - 3 = 4: Soch boghHa' wej, chen loS.
> {boqHa'} is the word. (I don't even want to think about what {boghHa'}
> means. Painful for the mother, I bet!)
Ack! mughojmoH *TKD* vIlo'chu'!
>> But can that be extended to working with units?
>> For example, would it be possible to say<< vagh cheb'a' boghHa' wej'
>> cheb ngI'>>
> No. boqHa' isn't simply a word that is equivalent to "minus". Arithmetic
> sentences in Klingon are formulaic, but their structure is different to
> English arithmetic.
>
> boqHa' is a verb that means roughly "to dissociate oneself from, to dis-
> ally oneself with, to split off from". In {vagh cheb'a' boqHa' wej cheb
> ngI'}, I can't tell what's supposed to link to it, and what to the main
> verb {ngI'}.
I *was* trying to figure out a way to say my "its weight forms" {chen
X} as per the formula,but I couldn't come up with a way to express that.
> If you want to try to do this, you would have to go with a
> relative clause using -bogh:
>
> vagh cheb'a' boqHa'bogh wej cheb ngI'
>
> But even so I find it semantically weird. If you want to be more precise,
> it's probably best to go with a percentage:
>
> loS vI' jav Soch cheb'a' ngI'
> "it weighs four point six seven cheb'a'"
Hmm. DujDaq Qapchu' 'e'vatlh, pagh <<loS cheb'a' jav cheb je>> lujatlh
wIjwI' chor (bargh) chenwI' joq 'e' vIHarqu'taH
~quljIb
