tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 10 19:43:58 1999
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Re: Hoch
Voragh jang jey'el:
>
>> Okrand explained this in HolQeD 5.2. {Hoch} *precedes* the noun it modifies.
>> If the noun following {Hoch} is explicitly plural, it means "all"; if it is
>> singular, it means "each".
>> ...[chovnatlhmey law'qu' vInop]...
>> - rut yIHmey ghom Hoch
>> Everyone encounters tribbles occasionally. TKW
>> - nIn Hoch natlhlu'pu'
>> All the fuel has been consumed. KGT
>> - Hoch DuH yIqel
>> Consider every possibility! [KGT 108]
>> ...[chovnatlhmey law'qu' vInopqa']...
>
>chutvam bIv wa' chovnatlhlIj: {nIn Hoch}.
Good eyes! The {nIn Hoch} example is neither "all fuels" nor "each fuel".
This usage and the trailing {HochHom} used on Skybox S14 give us another
way to interpret the word. {nIn Hoch} is "all _of_ the fuel", and on the
Skybox card {HochHom} refers to "most _of_ (the 23rd century)". They are
not counting objects, they are describing a part of a single object. We
have yet to see {'op} or {pagh} used after a noun, so we don't know if it
works that way in general. And we haven't actually gotten an official
description of why {nIn Hoch} and {vatlh DISpoH cha'maH wej HochHom} are
the way they are. But it makes sense, and SuStel is very good at arguing
that that's the way it *should* be. :-)
-- ghunchu'wI'