[Tlhingan-hol] Classic Polygons (was: Re: geometry and card games)

[De'vID]

On 3 December 2014 at 15:12, Gaerfindel <gaerfindel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> If I'm reading the New Words List correctly. the five classic (Platonic)
> polyhedra would be named as such:
>
> qu'vu'                                         --  tetrahedron
> buq'Ir                                          --  cube, hexahedron

quSDaq bIba'.

> chorgh mey' HoS yergh            --  octahedron

{chorgh mey' yergh HoS}, or maybe {chorgh ra'Duch yergh HoS}? The
{HoS} should apply to {yergh}, and not only to the {mey'} which are
its faces.

(It's possible to have a polyhedron whose faces are regular, but which
is not itself regular, such as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_solid )

> wa'maH cha' mey' HoS yergh  --  dodecahedron
> cha'maH mey' HoS yergh         --  icosahedron
>
> Of course there are always the {wa'maH mey' yergh} and the {wa'vatlh mey'
> yearghmey}.  But they're not regular polyhedra.  }}:-)

We don't have sufficient information at the moment on how the Klingons
name complex geometry objects.

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De'vID