[Tlhingan-hol] Facebook Translation Project [FTP]: weekdays

Steven Boozer sboozer at uchicago.edu
Thu Mar 1 13:28:26 PST 2012


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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