On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 18:39, nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 10:18 AM Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
(TKD 53): Higher numbers are formed by adding special number-forming elements to the basic set of numbers (1-9) ... Both {SaD} and {SanID} are equally correct for thousand, and both are used with roughly equal frequency. It is not known why this number alone has two variants.
AFAIK Okrand has never revealed the reason. (Has anyone asked him?)
*meq vISovbe'. mu' wa'DIch qolHa'pu' Hov leng wej ghetwI'pu' vaj cha' mu'vetlh tutlhmoHta' 'oqranD, 'e' vI'Ir.*
*DIvI' Hol mu' <thousand> 'InDogh Qav rur cha' mu'vetlh. chaq DIvI' Hol mu'mey luqa'lu'meH**, **QIch wab qonnISqa'pu' * *ghetwI'pu'* *.*
{SaD} and {SanID} were very likely created to fit the several lines which say "Range, X thou*sand* kellicams" in Star Trek III. Maybe he created two versions both of which fit the mouth movement for "thousand", to see which one sounded better or had the right length when the actor spoke it, but it was left undecided when they didn't film those lines in Klingon. -- De'vID