[Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Specialism - Time

[Noah Bogart]

What happened to Klingon time being counted from dawn-to-dawn? Is this just
the Klingon time-keeping words being transposed 6 hours earlier than they
normally run, or is it now a retcon, or do they actually have a totally
different system of counting time and what we have here is a translation of
human time?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 00:34, Adm qe'San <qeSan at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > Five past five (5:05)a.m. -     vaghvatlh vagh rep
> > 5:05 p.m. (17:05) -     wa'maH Sochvatlh vagh rep
>
> On the original CD, the Latin script text had a different wording:
> {vagh pagh vagh rep}. Presumably, this is an earlier (and not canon)
> version. The sound file and the pIqaD agree with the newer-style
> wording.
>
> Other spelling differences include:
>
> * consistent space before {vatlh}, e.g. *{wa' vatlh rep} "1:00"
> * consistent lack of {vatlh} if minutes are mentioned, e.g. *{wa'
> wa'maH vagh rep} "1:15". (With {pagh} inserted if the minutes are less
> than ten.)
>
> > I separated the vatlh from the wa'maH to show that it is a
> > specialized usage of vatlh (wa'maHvatlh can't be a normal Klingon
> number). I
> > left it attached to Hutvatlh and so on because they happen to be regular
> > Klingon numbers anyway.
>
> Ah, that explains that! I had been wondering about {wa'maH vatlh} and
> {cha'maH vatlh}.
>
> Cheers,
> Philip
> --
> Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>
>
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