tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 28 06:21:44 1998
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Re: nouns with multiple characteristics
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: nouns with multiple characteristics
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:21:41 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
- Priority: NORMAL
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:18:34 -0800 (PST) TPO <[email protected]>
wrote:
> ghItlh charghwI':
> >Equal parts:
> >chIS yIHvam bID 'ej qIj yIHvam bID.
>
> from BoP:
> ==(cha' choQmey naQ tu'lu' 'ej tep choQ bIngDaq lo' law' bID choQ tu'lu')
> ==(2 Full Decks and a Half Utility Deck unter the Cargo Deck)
>
> In the poster, bID is modifying choQ and is placed before it.
> (like Hoch)
>
> So perhaps:
> chIS bID yIHvam 'ej qIj bID yIHvam
>
>
> DloraH
I considered this, though we still don't have a lot of clarity
about this. For "a half utility deck", I can see "half" being a
number. There is no other half to the deck. It is like a
measurement of the deck relating to its size. Meanwhile, for
"half of the tribble", I see it as a noun. It is the tribble's
half. That same tribble has another half. That makes it a
noun-noun with tribble coming first and half following.
If there were two full-sized tribbles and a half-sized tribble,
I might, similar to the deck description, refer to 2.5 tribbles.
The small tribble would basically be a half tribble and there
would be no corresponding half for me to refer to. See?
charghwI' 'utlh