[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: morgh

[Ed Bailey]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm at kth.se> wrote:

> I don't believe we have a word for "have an area of", though you could
> perhaps get away with {yugh}, or maybe {ngaS} (though that to me suggests
> "have an area equal to *or greater than*".
>
> Considering we have verbs for "have a volume of" and several for various
> lengths and distances, I expect there probably is a similar word for areas
> that we just don't know yet.
>
> > Someone did the math and based on the measurements from the BoP Poster,
> > 1 {'uj} ≈ 0.3483 meters or 34.83 cm.
>
> Indeed; calculations can be found here:
> https://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2012/March/msg00130.html


This is exactly the post I thought of when I saw {morgh} as KWOTD. It's a
very well-reasoned calculation of the {'uj}. (My only caveat is the poster
doesn't agree with the ILM size chart's original length of 360 feet, or
110m to the nearest meter. But Felix was certainly aware of this, and
besides, 344.53 {'uj} must be somewhat over 114.84m if an {'uj'a'} is
"somewhat over 3m." And of course the disagreement between the poster and
the size chart is the least of the discrepancies concerning the BoP's size:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/bop-size.htm).

~mIp'av
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