[Tlhingan-hol] points, lines, triangles, general shapes, higher dimensional geometry, and related vocabulary

[Felix Malmenbeck]

While speculating on Klingon mathematics, I've been using «joj» and «He» to refer to paths and intervals.

Here'd some clearly ungrammatical stuff I've written, just to play around with what the notation might look like:
http://t.co/mElf0pvu


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From: De'vID [de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 21:22
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] points, lines, triangles, general shapes, higher dimensional geometry, and related vocabulary

De'vID:
>> I'd really like to know more about Klingon vocabulary for geometry.
>> We have {meyrI'} for "square", and we sort of have {gho} for "circle",

Voragh:
> What do you mean "sort of"?
>
>   meyrI'Daq 'oHtaH gho'e'
>   The circle is in the square. [qep'a' 2005]
>
>   'Iw 'Ip ghomey
>   "Blood Oath Circles" {title of sculpture) KCD

I wasn't sure if it referred only to physical circles (hoops), or
abstract ones.  I guess the qep'a' 2005 sentence makes it clear that
it can refer to the abstract geometry shape.

De'vID:
>> and maybe we can somehow get rectangles and ellipses out of those, and

Voragh:
> You're thinking of something like *{meyrI' tIq} "long/extended square" for rectangle and *{gho tIq} "long/extended circle" for ellipse?

Exactly.  Or with {taQ} instead of {tIq}.

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De'vID

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