On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se> wrote:

Sounds like fun! Won't be able to join the team myself, however.

Oh, boy! Now I want to make a Klingon ruler!

Sadly, we know very little of units of length smaller than one 'uj, but yes, there is confirmation of those measurements being expressed using decimals. In the link above, you'll find examples such as

wejvatlh loSmaH loS vI' vagh wej 'ujmey (344,53 'ujmey)

Just as feet are divided into both tenths of feet (for surveying) and inches (for carpentry, machining, etc.), perhaps Klingons use both decimal {'ujmey} and {'ujHommey} according to purpose. Based on how augmentatives multiply units of measurement by nine, it's reasonable to expect that diminutives divide then by nine, in which an {'ujHom} would be one ninth of an {'uj} or 3.87cm. Another thing to ask Maltz. I'd hate to make a ruler marked with {'ujHommey} only to find out from Maltz an {'ujHom} is actually a twenty-seventh of an {'uj}.

> Should a Klingon ruler double as a weapon?

Depends on the end-user, I suppose, but I personally would advise against it; rulers are rulers and weapons are weapons.

In the hands of my second-grade teacher, it was a weapon. rut muHup 'a vIvuv.

~mIp'av