tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 30 00:44:07 1999
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Re: Order of ordinals
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Order of ordinals
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 03:43:20 EST
In a message dated 3/26/1999 9:52:46 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< But what is an ordinal? How do we know that the Klingon ordinal is the
same
as the Chinese ordinal or the Swahili ordinal? I've taken 12 linguistics
courses and I know what I'm talking about. We must look through the
languages
of the ancient Bush tribe that died out in the 16th century and the ancient
Phoenicians to gain a proper grasp of this concept. How do we even know that
wa'DIch is an ordinal? I have to see more examples from MO before I'll
believe it to be true. Until then, I'll just use all numbers suffixed with
-DIch as adverbials until I can use them as ordinals. >>
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yIqIm, T'Lod. *Order of ordinals jabbI'IDmey vItaghpu'be'. Chinese Hol
Swahili Hol je vIja'pu'be', 'ach Dachelta' SoH'e'. jIHvaD bIjangbe'. *Order
of ordinals jabbI'ID taghbogh nuvvaD bIjangba'.
peHruS