[92371] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Facebook Translation Project [FTP]: weekdays
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Mar 1 16:28:38 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
<tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 15:28:26 -0600
In-Reply-To: <4F4FE53F.10603@web.de>
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Lieven Litaer:
> We need to translate the weekdays, and there is an obvious and nice
> suggestion to do this with {jaj wa'}, {jaj cha'} and so on.
>
> Now the problem is, WHICH is day one?
>
> - There is a canon (is it?) invitation to the Startrek Exhibition
> using {jaj wa'} for "Sunday".
For those unfamiliar with this, here's the relevant line:
tera' poH jaj wa', jar wa', jaj loSDIch, DIS wa'-Hut-Hut-chorgh:
HovpoHvetlh latlh nab yIHutlh.
Save this Stardate: Sunday, January 4, 1998
> Since this latter problem might never be solved, I'd suggest to leave
> the weekdays untranslated until we have official names for them (which
> I doubt, since klingons certainly do not have a seven-day week, but
> who knows? ;-)
Are dates and the days of the week given in "TalkNow! Klingon"? If so, I would go with this method.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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