tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 12 19:43:22 1996
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RE: new here
- From: "Kenneth Traft" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: new here
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 96 02:45:29 UT
> I'm not really sure how to use "bID". Treating it as a noun,
>"tlhIngan bID" makes a little more sense (half a Klingon). Ooog... that's
>a little gruesome. Well, with a pie it's easier: "chab bID" might work for
>half a pie, instead of "?bID chab". Of course, that's the same reasoning
>that led me to putting "Hoch" after the noun, which we now know is not
>right. "half-Klingon" is even tougher, since you run afoul of the meaning
>"Klingon who came off second-best in a betleH duel."
bID is a noun and according to the rules of noun consturctions it should be
placed before the modifying noun. To say tlhIngan bID implies that bID is a
verb of aspect. The same would be true with Hoch. Of course you'd treat bID
as a now because it is. 1/2 is a number like 1, 2, 3, etc. It would seem to
have to follow the same characteristics (TKD section 5.2)