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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/11/2019 11:08 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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cite="mid:CAP7F2cK_4ORcsyninaECDK-d1fsF_88W1Z=d=R-1=zHSD3dE-w@mail.gmail.com">I
think I've asked about this in the past too, but I've forgotten
the answer.
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<div dir="auto">How does one tell the time, by the use of
{Qoylu'pu'} when the time isn't a "round" number ?</div>
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<div dir="auto">How do we say by the {Qoylu'pu'}, that it's 21.45
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<p>I don't think we know. If you take the expression literally, the
answer would be to say <b>cha'maH wa'logh Qoylu'pu'</b><i> it has
been heard twenty-one times.</i> Because at 21:45 whatever <i>it</i>
is has been heard twenty-one times. The idiom does not seem to
describe fractions of an hour.</p>
<p>Given that the <b>Qoylu'pu' </b>idiom is supposed to be the
most common way to tell the time outside of a military or
interplanetary context, even though a non-military context is said
to be rare, it seems odd to me that there would be no way to be
more specific. Who knows? Maybe they say something like <b>loSmaH
vagh tup ret cha'maH wa'logh Qoylu'pu'</b> <i>forty-five
minutes ago it had been heard twenty-one times.</i><br>
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