<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 16:19, <<a href="mailto:luis.chaparro@web.de">luis.chaparro@web.de</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Should I say for midnight *cha'maH loSlogh Qoylu'pu'* or something with *zero*? <br></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>Unclear, but in the newsgroup posting/HolQeD article where the {Qoylu'pu'} idiom is explained, it says that the hours are labeled 1 through 24 in the {tera' rep N} system, but says nothing about how midnight is labeled using the {Qoylu'pu'} method, so I would assume it is {cha'maH loSlogh Qoylu'pu'} (as otherwise I would've expected it to be noted). But I would accept {paghlogh Qoylu'pu'} if I heard/saw it.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">And is there a way to tell the minutes when using *Qoylu'pu'*?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not that we know. But the form of the idiom suggests not, since presumably whatever is heard happens on the hour.</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
As an aside: do we know how to ask for the time when we tell it as hundreds?<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>The "hundreds" system is explained in Conversational Klingon, where the only way given to ask for time is to use {ghorgh}. The question {ghorgh mamej} is used as an example in the section on questions, and later, in the section about hotels (right after the section on telling time), the guest asks {ghorgh pa'wIjDaq jIchegh}. Since the only time-telling system which has been explained at this point is the "hundreds" system, presumably the answer will be of that form.<div><br></div><div>However, in the hotel section, the Klingon clerk also says {vagh rep bImejnIS} "Checkout time is 5 am", with no explanation of why {vagh rep} is used or why it means "5 am" or why it wasn't {vaghvatlh rep}. (Maybe Okrand accidentally dropped the {-vatlh} due to its visual similarity to {vagh} when he was reading the script.) Presumably, this is what prompted the newsgroup posting/HolQeD article, which begins <Actually, there are several ways to ask "What time is it?" in Klingon. Here are a couple...><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>