[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing Anno Domini

[qurgh lungqIj]

That I don't know. The Skybox canon suggests that we should spell out the
dates. I don't know of other date canon (although I wouldn't be surprised
if there was something in Monopoly). Perhaps Voragh may be able to help us
in that area.

qurgh

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:30 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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