[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing Anno Domini

[mayqel qunenoS]

Another interesting question which came to mind is the following..

Do we always need to say {tera' DIS wa'-wa'-pagh-pagh} for "1100" (c.e. or
b.c.e.), or can we say too {tera' DIS wa' SaD wa' vatlh} ?

qunnoq

On Sep 22, 2017 8:23 PM, "qurgh lungqIj" <qurgh at wizage.net> wrote:

> I think this is the same as in English. If I say "It happened in the year
> 300" no one knows if I mean CE or BCE, but they assume I mean CE.
>
> If we had an easy way to talk about negative numbers, then I'd use that
> for BCE.
>
> I don't know if I'd get "100 BCE" from {wa' vatlh DIS qaSpa' tera' DIS
> pagh} if we hadn't had had this conversation first (or there was more
> context included). Maybe {tera' DIS wa'-pagh-pagh qaSpa' tera' DIS pagh,
> jagh luHIv} - "Terran year 100, before Terran year 0 happened, they
> attacked the enemy.", but that still feels clunky to me. There's got to be
> a better way to say it.
>
> Maybe {tera' DIS wa'-pagh-pagh qaSpa' bov motlh, jagh luHIv} - "Terran
> year 100, before the usual era happened, they attacked the enemy". I'm not
> a fan of that either really.
>
> qurgh
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:00 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> qurgh:
>> > I mostly use {tera' DIS} when talking about current Earth time
>>
>> Initially, I thought of using the {tera' DIS}; but the problem is that if
>> I say {tera' DIS wa' vatlh}, then how would someone know if I mean "100
>> c.e." and not "100 b.c.e." ?
>>
>> Now that I think of it again, perhaps we could say something like {wa'
>> vatlh DIS qaSpa' tera' DIS pagh} for "100 years b.c.e.", and {wa' vatlh DIS
>> qaSpu'DI' tera' DIS pagh} for "100 years c.e."
>>
>> But the problem is, are the above understood by the average reader ? If
>> you read these, would you understand what I'm trying to say ?
>>
>> qunnoq
>>
>> On Sep 22, 2017 7:48 PM, "qurgh lungqIj" <qurgh at wizage.net> wrote:
>>
>>> tera' DIS... ;)
>>>
>>> I use "CE" instead of "AD". That could be {bov motlh}, but I mostly use
>>> {tera' DIS} when talking about current Earth time.
>>>
>>> qurgh
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:44 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can someone tell me how to say in klingon "Anno Domini" ?
>>>>
>>>> I know we can say {qeylIS bov nubwI'} for "before the era of qeylIS".
>>>> So initially I thought of saying {christ bov cho'wI'}.
>>>>
>>>> But then I realized that the verb {cho'} means "to succeed to
>>>> authority", and not "to succeed (in general)".
>>>>
>>>> So, I came up with {christ bov bov veb} for "the next era of the era of
>>>> christ".
>>>>
>>>> I think this is correct, but again I'm not certain..
>>>>
>>>> Would you understand it if you saw it, without knowing the intended
>>>> meaning ? Can you think of something better ? And if you can, can you tell
>>>> me too ?
>>>>
>>>> qunnoq
>>>>
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