[tlhIngan Hol] Are arabic numerals canon ?
DloraH
seruq at bellsouth.net
Thu Sep 28 11:13:19 PDT 2017
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.
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