tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 19 09:56:28 1994
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Re: KLBC: Re: Hoch, et al.
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Re: Hoch, et al.
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 12:55:21 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Oct 17, 94 4:33 pm
According to Mark E. Shoulson:
...
> >If you wanted to say "everyone of the planet", you'd say yuQ Hoch. If
> >you were talking about everyone on several planets, you could still say
> >yuQ Hoch -- but the person speaking would need to make sure the listener
> >is definitely clear that the topic of the conversation was several planets.
> >If they were "switching gears", they'd need to pick it out specifically...
> >ie. "yuQmey Hoch"...
>
> I'd go the other way. "Hoch" can mean "everybody" but only when the
> context restricts the universality to people. To say "All the people of
> the planet", I'd say "yuQ ngan Hoch" or "yuQ ghot Hoch".
I'm responding to this only because ~mark disagreed with my
original interpretation on the use of {Hoch}, and even then
only to assure people that I'm not grumbling to myself about
anything. ~mark has good points and I basically agree with him.
On further thought (especially with naQ as an option) he has
convinced me that expressing an explicit plural is unnecessary,
though not wrong. {yuQ Hoch} means "All the planets". {yuQ naQ}
means "All of the planet".
charghwI'