On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 2:52 AM qurgh lungqIj <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:
Grammar Points & SImyon scale reference: https://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-javdich/qepa-chamah-javdic...
I did some math for the SImyon conversion to kill time during lunch. Back-solving from the two equalities where one value is zero (-210C = 0S, 0C = 183S), we get the following *wItte'mey* for converting between S, C, and F: - S = (61/70)C + 183 = (305F + 105530) / 630 - C = (70/61)(S - 183) = (5/9)(F - 32) - F = (630S - 105530) / 305 = (9/5)C + 32 - Absolute zero = -273.15C = -459.67F = -55.14S (Or you could just use the converter at Hol 'ampaS.) On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:48 PM Daniel Dadap <daniel@dadap.net> wrote:
vabDot cha' mu'mey DIghaj!
Sometimes, when Okrand provides nouns for Klingon equivalents of Earth animals, I like to look at the puns involved to try and get an idea of what sort of animal he had in mind when coming up with the term. Admittedly, this is not at all a rigorous scientific exercise, though it does give me an excuse to post two of the puns I've found. *ngavyaw' *backwards sounds like "white fang" ("*way vang*"), a 1906 book by Jack London about a wolfdog. *qovIj* backwards is *jIvoq*, "I trust" or "I have faith", which is also the Latin meaning of the dog name "Fido". So without further clarification I'd probably use *tera' ngavyaw' *for larger or more wolf-like Earth canids, and *tera' qovIj* for ones that are smaller or more dog-like.