On 9/11/2019 11:08 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
I think I've asked about this in the past too, but I've forgotten the answer.
How does one tell the time, by the use of {Qoylu'pu'} when the time isn't a "round" number ?
How do we say by the {Qoylu'pu'}, that it's 21.45 ?
I don't think we know. If you take the expression literally, the answer would be to say *cha'maH wa'logh Qoylu'pu'*/it has been heard twenty-one times./ Because at 21:45 whatever /it/ is has been heard twenty-one times. The idiom does not seem to describe fractions of an hour. Given that the *Qoylu'pu' *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 *loSmaH vagh tup ret cha'maH wa'logh Qoylu'pu'* /forty-five minutes ago it had been heard twenty-one times./ -- SuStel http://trimboli.name