[Tlhingan-hol] Month sentences

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Oh, and just a note about strange moon math:

People might commonly look up at the Moon and say, “Oh, that’s a half moon,” because it’s half illuminated. Nope. That’s either a first quarter moon or a third quarter moon, because the fraction refers to the life cycle of the moon’s illumination, not to the percentage of illumination. So, the boundary between waxing quarter and waxing gibbous is First Quarter, and the boundary between waning gibbous and waning quarter is Third Quarter. There is no “Half Moon”, unless you are referring to the Full Moon, which technically is a Half Moon, but nobody calls it that, because, well, it’s fully illuminated.

It’s not weirder than having clocks that go from 1 to 12 to count the number of hours in a 24 hour day, or having months of a fixed number of days each year, but vary among themselves irregularly between 30 and 31 days, except for February, which is 28 days, except for Leap Years, during which it’s 29 days long…

Most time-related math is weird, especially at warp speed.

lojmIt tI’wI’ nuv ‘utlh
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> On Feb 27, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
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> That’s why I like these two puns:  they’re clever, not too obvious (as the questions in this thread indicate), and apt (since phases of the moon relate to months).
>  
> Voragh
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> From: lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com <mailto:lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com> [mailto:lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com <mailto:lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com>] 
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:23 AM
> 
> After a New Moon (the dark one), when the moon’s phase is increasing the size of the illuminated part of the moon each night, it is “waxing”. It continues to wax until a full moon, after which it “wanes”. So, the phases are typically called:
>  
> New Moon
> Waxing quarter
> Waxing gibbous
> Full Moon
> Waning gibbous
> Waning quarter
> New Moon
>  
> This falls under “Stuff I learned from an iPad app”.
>  
> On Feb 26, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca <mailto:robyn at flyingstart.ca>> wrote:
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> Yes, I have waQ and wen in the sentences, but you’ll have to explain the puns for me. I’ve been saying them over and over again and nothing twigs. I think I initially remembered ‘way back when’ and ‘a whack of time from now’.
>  
> - Qov
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> From: Steven Boozer [mailto:sboozer at uchicago.edu <mailto:sboozer at uchicago.edu>] 
> Sent: February 26, 2015 6:36
> 
>  Robyn Stewart:
> > Here’s what I have so far to retrain the Hub system on “month.”...
> I don’t remember if you mentioned it before, but don’t forget to add {waQ} and {wen}  to the mix:
> 
> IMO, HQ 8.3:  Another pair of words of this type refers to months: {wen} “months ago”, {waQ} “months from now”. Thus, {loSwen} is “four months ago” and {wa'waQ} is “next month” (one month from now). 
> 
> They’re two of my favorite Okrandian puns/mnemonics.
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