tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 28 20:41:00 1995
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Re: latlh
Fri, 28 Apr 1995 ghItlh peHruS:
> Since <latlh> is a noun, perhaps it acts as do <Hoch> and <pagh>. See TKD
> p54 Sec. 5.2
>
> >Numbers are used as nouns.
That means they can function as the subject or object of a sentence.
> >Numbers used as modifiers precede the noun they modify.
This makes numbers unique. Neither nouns nor verbs do this.
{Hoch} is a noun. {pagh} is a number. Their use is somewhat different.
In PK, there is the phrase:
{targhlIj yab tIn law' no'lI' Hoch yabDu' tIn puS.}
("My targ has a bigger brain than all of your ancestors put together.")
Here {no'lI' Hoch} means "all of your ancesters". In this noun-noun
construction, {Hoch} follows the noun. But if I wanted to say "no or zero
ancestors", it would be {pagh no'} because numbers precede the noun they
modify.
Since {latlh} is a noun and not a number, if I wanted to say "another
one of your ancestors", it would be {no'lI' latlh}.
> peHruS
yoDtargh