tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 17 13:31:53 2011
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' vaghmaH vagh: <taS SuQ>
ja' Voragh:
> It might just be my dialect, but {'op} "some" implies "few" or at least "not many"...
> I think of {'op} as being the opposite of {HochHom} "most, greater part",...
I too disagree with that understanding. I think {'op} just means an
unspecified number. It implies a number greater than zero, and I
wouldn't use it when the number is likely to be all of the population
being considered, but I don't know that doing so would be wrong.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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