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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Apparently you use 24-hour "military time" style. From “TalkNow!”:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">chorghvatlh rep eight o'clock a.m. (08:00) “eight hundred hours”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">cha'maH vatlh rep eight o'clock p.m. (20:00) “twenty hundred hours”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This way you don’t need {po} “morning” at all.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Okrand used a slightly different version in “Conversational Klingon”, e.g.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> vagh rep bImejnIS.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Check out time is five A.M. (CK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This may just be an abbreviated version without {vatlh} however.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">There is also another - more traditional - way to talk about the time. Here is Okrand’s st.klingon post in full:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">**************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">From: Marc Okrand <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Newsgroups: startrek.klingon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Subject: Re: wanI' to replace time related relative pronoun<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>Will Martin wrote:</i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>>Meanwhile, wouldn't it be really cool if Marc Okrand just told us how to<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>>deal with time issues like this? I mean, "What time is it?" seems like a<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>>basic enough question. The only answer he has given us so far is the<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>>possible idiom <b>tlhaqwIj chu'Ha'lu'pu'</b>. I would think a Klingon would<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>>have a more straight-forward way of asking what time it is. Or maybe a<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>>Klingon simply would not ask what time it is unless his
<b>tlhaq </b>was broken<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>>or missing?<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Actually, there are several ways to ask "What time is it?" in Klingon.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Here are a couple. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In dealing with time in interplanetary communication, Klingons have come<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">to use the 24-hour system favored by the Federation. There are 24 hours<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">in a day (meaning 24 Earth hours in an Earth day), numbered one through<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">24. For example: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> tera' rep wa'<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> "Earth hour one" or "one o'clock"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> tera' rep cha'maH<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> "Earth hour 20" or "20 o'clock" or "eight o'clock p.m."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> tera' rep loS wejmaH<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> "Earth hour 4:30"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">If the context is clear, the word <b>tera'</b> "Earth" may be left out:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <b>rep cha'maH </b>"20 o'clock, eight o'clock p.m."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">When working within this system, one doesn't inquire as to the time; one<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">demands that the number of the current hour be specified. Thus, the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">equivalent expression to "What time is it?" is a command:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <b>rep yIper</b>! "Ascertain the hour! Specify the hour!"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This is literally "Label the hour!". Though the verb <b>
per</b> "label" is usually used in the sense of "attach or assign a name to," it can also be used for such notions as "ascertain, specify, pin down." This is not considered slang or idiomatic.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">When giving the time using this system, hours are numbered, not counted.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">That is, one says <b>rep cha'</b> "hour two, hour number two, two o'clock," not<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>cha' rep</b> or <b>cha' repmey</b> "two hours" (a plural suffix, here
<b>-mey</b>, is not needed when a number modifies a noun, but it is sometimes used anyway). Accordingly, it is not customary to ask for the time by saying
<b>rep tItogh</b> or <b>repmey tItogh</b> "Count the hours!". <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In nonmilitary contexts (as rare as these may be) and in situations where<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">interplanetary communication is not a concern, the most common way of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">asking "What time is it?" in Klingon is quite different. It is based on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">the way the question was asked long ago, in a time before Klingons<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">traveled around the galaxy and before there was any significant amount of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">interaction between Klingons and residents of other planets:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> 'arlogh Qoylu'pu'? <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This is literally "How many times has (someone) heard (it)?" or "How many<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">times has it been heard?" (<b>'arlogh</b> "how many times?" a word that<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">functions adverbially, made up of the question word <b>'ar</b> "how much? how<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">many?" and the special number suffix -<b>logh</b> "times" [as in "six times"];
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Qoylu'pu'</b> "someone has heard (it)," made up of <b>
Qoy</b> "hear," -<b>lu'</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"indefinite subject," -<b>pu'</b> "perfective," that is, the action has been<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">completed). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">What is not clear from this locution is what it is that has supposedly<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">been heard. In modern Klingon, the "what" in this phrase is never<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">expressed. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">It appears as though, long ago, at least some Klingons were notified of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">the time by some audible signal (though what means were used to calculate<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">the time in the first place remain to be discovered). Perhaps this signal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">was a specific sound (a person shouting? a beat on a drum? a gong? the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">growl of an animal?) and that word was originally part of the expression,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">for example, <b>'arlogh bey Qoylu'pu'</b>? "How many times has someone heard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">the howl? How many times has the howl been heard?". Or maybe the expression contained a more general word such as
<b>ghum </b>"alarm" or <b>wab</b> "sound, noise": <b>'arlogh wab Qoylu'pu'</b>? "How many times has someone heard the sound? How many times has the sound been heard?"
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">It has also been speculated that there was once a bit more to this<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">expression, namely an element stating the time period the questioner was<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">concerned about. For example, maybe people said: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> DaHjaj 'arlogh Qoylu'pu'? <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">That is, "Today, how many times has someone heard it?", suggesting that the questioner is concerned about how much time has gone by "today" (as opposed to, say, "this week").
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Or maybe the fuller expression was a little less specific:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> qen 'arlogh Qoylu'pu'? <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Recently, how many times has someone heard it?" (<b>qen</b> "recently, a short<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">time ago"). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Regardless of its original full form, the expression comes down to us now<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">as simply <b>'arlogh Qoylu'pu'</b>?. The phrase is considered an idiom because<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">what it means ("What time is it?") cannot be understood on the basis of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">the meanings of its components ("How many times has someone heard it?").
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The answer to the question <b>'arlogh</b> "How many times?" is, as might be<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">expected, <b>X-logh</b>, where X is some number. For example:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> cha'logh Qoylu'pu'. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This is literally "Someone has heard it twice" or "It has been heard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">twice" (<b>cha'logh</b> "twice," from <b>cha'</b> "two" plus -<b>logh</b> "times").
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This is the Klingon equivalent to "It's two o'clock." Originally, this<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">was a statement of time in the traditional Klingon system, but it is now<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">also used for the 24-hour system. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The idiomatic <b>'arlogh Qoylu'pu'</b> also shows up in such questions as "What<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">time do we leave?": <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> mamejDI' 'arlogh Qoylu'pu'? <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This is literally "When we leave, how many times will someone have heard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">(it)?" or "When we leave, how many times will it have been heard?".
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">An answer might be "We (will) leave at eight o'clock: <o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> mamejDI' chorghlogh Qoylu'pu'<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Literally, "When we leave, someone will have heard (it) eight times".
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Since subordinate clauses such as <b>mamejDI'</b> "when we leave" can come<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">before or after the main clause, it's also possible to say:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> 'arlogh Qoylu'pu' mamejDI'?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> chorghlogh Qoylu'pu' mamejDI'.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Literally, "How many times will someone have heard (it) when we leave?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Someone will have heard (it) eight times when we leave." <o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In actual conversation, of course, it's usually not so repetitive. You'd<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">probably hear: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> 'arlogh Qoylu'pu' mamejDI'?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> chorghlogh Qoylu'pu'.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"How many times will someone have heard (it) when we leave? Someone will<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">have heard (it) eight times." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Or even:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> 'arlogh Qoylu'pu' mamejDI'?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b> chorghlogh.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"How many times will someone have heard (it) when we leave? Eight times."
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">*************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">--<br>
Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ca'Non Master of the Klingons</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> mayqel qunen'oS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">I want to say "8 'o clock in the morning".<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">Should I say {po 8 am}, or {8 am po} ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">(I didn't write the time in klingon for simplicity..)<o:p></o:p></p>
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