On 9/11/2019 2:42 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
Why not? Generally doesn’t mean always. When I was in the Navy people intermixed both civilian and military systems constantly:
"Generally" not doing something means you're not "constantly" doing it. I would say your Navy experience does not correspond to what Okrand describes in his message. The Navy is not Klingon society. The description of *'arlogh Qoylu'pu'* suggests that most of the time Klingons will use "military time" in one way or another. Okrand suggests that non-military contexts are somewhat rare, and don't forget how /Power Klingon/ tells us that nearly everyone wears military markings. The use of *Qoylu'pu'* among Klingons to tell the time will be rare. We can easily imagine such contexts. A Klingon child is told to go to bed; he or she demands to know, *'arlogh Qoylu'pu'?* A couple are in bed after mating, and one of them is due to ship out at 0730 hours; he or she might ask, *'arlogh Qoylu'pu'?* But if you're aboard your ship and someone wants to know when this week's in-flight movie starts, they'd say *rep yIper,* because "military time" is likely the standard throughout the Empire. So the question is whether you can express not-on-the-hour times with *Qoylu'pu',* not whether you can substitute a military time answer in a non-military context. And that, we don't know. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name