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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/11/2019 2:42 PM, Steven Boozer
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:SN6PR11MB30534C9482E3E12927F445CAC1B10@SN6PR11MB3053.namprd11.prod.outlook.com"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Why
not? Generally doesn’t mean always. When I was in the Navy
people intermixed both civilian and military systems constantly:</span></blockquote>
<p>"Generally" not doing something means you're not "constantly"
doing it. I would say your Navy experience does not correspond to
what Okrand describes in his message. The Navy is not Klingon
society.</p>
<p>The description of <b>'arlogh Qoylu'pu'</b> suggests that most
of the time Klingons will use "military time" in one way or
another. Okrand suggests that non-military contexts are somewhat
rare, and don't forget how <i>Power Klingon</i> tells us that
nearly everyone wears military markings. The use of <b>Qoylu'pu'</b>
among Klingons to tell the time will be rare.</p>
<p>We can easily imagine such contexts. A Klingon child is told to
go to bed; he or she demands to know, <b>'arlogh Qoylu'pu'?</b> A
couple are in bed after mating, and one of them is due to ship out
at 0730 hours; he or she might ask, <b>'arlogh Qoylu'pu'?</b></p>
<p>But if you're aboard your ship and someone wants to know when
this week's in-flight movie starts, they'd say <b>rep yIper,</b>
because "military time" is likely the standard throughout the
Empire.</p>
<p>So the question is whether you can express not-on-the-hour times
with <b>Qoylu'pu',</b> not whether you can substitute a military
time answer in a non-military context. And that, we don't know.<br>
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