Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 125,000

[Qov <robyn@flyingstart.ca>]

I see that TKD says "some of the number forming elements for higher 
numbers are ..." and stops at 'uy'. Clearly there are more we don't 
know. That suggests to me that there is one for each place up as high 
as Klingons need to count before whatever their scientifix notation 
is cuts in. But just as people who want to be clear when talking to 
an international audience avoid words like billion and say "a 
thousand million" or "a mllion million,"  I imagine 423,198,765,432 
could be understood as
loSbIp cha'netlh wejSaD wa'vatlh HutmaH chorgh'uy' Soch bIp javnetlh 
vaghSaD loSmaH wejmaH cha'.

- Qov

At 01:56 '?????' 6/6/2012, De'vID jonpIn wrote:

> Qov:
> >>> qepHomwIjDaq jatlh ghojwI', "chay' <125,000> jIjatlh?"
>
> *{wa' chorghvI' 'uy'}
>
> No, not really, but I wish *{-vI'} generalised in this way (from {vatlhvI'}).
>
> qurgh:
> >> wa'bIp cha'netlh vaghSaD
>
> Qov:
> > That makes sense. Is that canonical, qurgh?
>
> Why else would we have {bIp} and {netlh}?
>
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