[tlhIngan Hol] Are arabic numerals canon ?

[DloraH]

On Wed, 2017-09-27 at 15:59 -0400, SuStel wrote:
> On 9/27/2017 3:40 PM, André Müller wrote:
> > According to Memory Alpha, Cardassia Prime is the second planet in the 
> > system. So I would not translate Prime with {wa'} here. If we don't 
> > know the number of a Prime planet, perhaps {yuQ'a'} could be a solution?
> 
> But Cardassia Prime is canonically *qarDaS wa'.* Assuming that Memory 
> Alpha is correct, that means Klingons either translate /prime/ as *wa'* 
> regardless of position, or else Klingons don't follow the convention, 
> and it is only a convention, of numbering planets in order of distance 
> from their stars.
> 
> Since we also know that Klingons will translate names based (apparently) 
> on orbit order, and this contradicts the /prime/ naming, I conclude that 
> all the planet names with numbers in them are simply translations of 
> names, whatever the origin of the numbers, and not how Klingon 
> astronomers refer to them.
> 
> This means there can be confusion between knowing whether a planet is 
> the important one in the system or the closest one to its star. How do 
> you refer to Cardassia I? Oh well. These confusions happen in language. 
> Klingons undoubtedly think Federation Standard is dumb for getting this 
> all mixed up.



Or perhaps something like:
qarDaS wa' - Cardassia Prime (The important planet)
qarDaS wa'DIch - The first in sequence.  (Whatever sequence they are
using.)

The problem with this is the Klingon capital city uses wa'DIch.