<div dir="auto">Another interesting question which came to mind is the following..<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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} ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">qunnoq</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 22, 2017 8:23 PM, "qurgh lungqIj" <<a href="mailto:qurgh@wizage.net">qurgh@wizage.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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. <br><br>If we had an easy way to talk about negative numbers, then I'd use that for BCE.<br><br>I don't know if I'd get "100 BCE" from {<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">wa' vatlh DIS qaSpa' tera' DIS pagh</span><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px">} 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. <br><br>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. <br></span></font><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px">qurgh<br></span></font><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:00 PM, mayqel qunenoS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">qurgh:</span><span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">> I mostly use {tera' DIS} when talking about current Earth time</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div></span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">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." ?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">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."</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px">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 ?</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px">qunnoq</span></font></div></div><div class="m_-3829226426583918603HOEnZb"><div class="m_-3829226426583918603h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 22, 2017 7:48 PM, "qurgh lungqIj" <<a href="mailto:qurgh@wizage.net" target="_blank">qurgh@wizage.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">tera' DIS... ;)<br><br>I use "CE" instead of "AD". That could be {bov motlh}, but I mostly use {tera' DIS} when talking about current Earth time. <div><br></div><div>qurgh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:44 PM, mayqel qunenoS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Can someone tell me how to say in klingon "Anno Domini" ?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I know we can say {qeylIS bov nubwI'} for "before the era of qeylIS". So initially I thought of saying {christ bov cho'wI'}.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But then I realized that the verb {cho'} means "to succeed to authority", and not "to succeed (in general)".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So, I came up with {christ bov bov veb} for "the next era of the era of christ".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think this is correct, but again I'm not certain..</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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 ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">qunnoq</div></div>
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