tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 14 03:55:34 1994
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Re: "latlh" and "Hoch"
- From: Mark Reed <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "latlh" and "Hoch"
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 16:52:57 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "joy'wI'" at Mar 14, 94 04:34:49 pm
I believe the party line on "Hoch"/"latlh" is to use the noun-noun construct;
to say "all the captains", turn it into the synonymous-in-English
"all of the captains", which can be expressed in tlhIngan Hol as
"HoDpu' Hoch". This could also be read "the captains' all", of course; this
is consistent with the usage in some other Terran languages.
This works somewhat less clearly with "latlh": "HoDpu' latlh" may be read
"the other one of the captains". Of course, there's nothing here to say that
the "additional one" is itself another captain; the same phrase could be used
to refer to some other additional item jointly possessed by the captains under
discussion. Context would presumably sort out this ambiguity.
-marqoS