tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 15 23:11:22 2006
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Re: easy question
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: easy question
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:11:10 +1000
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jIja'pu':
>To me, {negh} strikes me as collective: "a group of soldiers", maybe. {loS
>negh} sounds odd, and if it meant anything at all, I would interpret
>it as "four groups of soldiers" or something similar. And anyway, since
>plural marking is optional on a noun after a number, {loS mang} avoids
>the problem entirely.
mujang lay'tel SIvten, ja':
>If {negh} can be used with numbers, then it can be used with {wa'}, making
>it singular, which conflicts with its inherent plural meaning, even though
>grammatically it is singular.
That's a good way of putting it, although just because a word can be used
with numbers doesn't necessarily mean you can use it with *every* number.
(Take English, for instance: you can say "two oxen", but that doesn't mean
you can say *"one oxen".)
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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