I still see it as part of a simple progression:
none - some - half - most - all
pagh - 'op - bID - HochHom - Hoch
YMMV.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ghunchu'wI' 'utlh [mailto:[email protected]]
>
> 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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