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<p class="MsoNormal"><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"> Felix Malmenbeck<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">> If it were common to say {loS loch wa'} for "one quarter", Klaa would've said it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">> We know that "quarter impulse" and "half impulse" are commonly used on Starfleet</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> ships, which makes it suitable for the subtitle, but it may be that Klingons (or Klaa in</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> particular) prefer to give them in percent; perhaps for consistency, perhaps for</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> accuracy, perhaps simply as a matter of preference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Certainly Okrand’s preference. I imagine he didn’t want to figure out how fractions work in Klingon when he translated Klaa’s line for the movie. (It took him 30 years to do
it; ST5 was copyrighted in 1989.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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