tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 15 13:56:37 1993

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On Wed, 15 Sep 93 12:57:33 -0400, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:

>
>>From: Will Martin <[email protected]>
>>Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 14:00:08 EDT
>
>
>>> (cha' wa'vatlhDaq DeQmeywij 'oH Dochvam 'e')
>
>>Suggestion:
>
>>(cha' wa'vatlhvI' DeQmeywIj 'oH Dochvam'e')
>
>Oh, lovely!  I really didn't like the way {cha' wa'vatlhDaq} looked at all,
>but had nothing better.  {vatlhvI'} really does the job far better.  That's
>a construction I hope we allow ourselves to generalize, using {?-vI'} as a
>fraction suffix (like "-th" in English or Esperanto "-on").  We really need
>one, otherwise the only fraction we have is {bID}="half".
>
>>--   charghwI'
>
>~mark

I seem to be missing something here.  Would it not be right to say:

(cha' vatlhvI' DeQmeywIj 'oH Dochvam'e')

Why put the wa' in there.  With it I read that as 21% except there is not 
tens forming element?
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