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Re: William Martin, petaQ SoH



>Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 17:15:21 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)

>ghItlh charghwI':
>>toH, HoDHomHey SoH. <batlh pagh Daghaj!>? "You have honor
>>#0."? Is that like having room number 7? <'Iw Sud>?

>ghItlh ~mark:
>>Well, pagh is given as a number; it could be numbering how much/many honor
>>your have: none.

>When the number *follows* the noun, it specifies which noun one is dealing
>with.  When the meaning is "how many" (in the case of {pagh}, "how much" is
>probably okay), the number should *precede* the noun.

Erk, bIlugh.  reH latlh qabDaq qul tuj law' Hoch tuj puS.  I guess I was
still thinking partitives.

~mark




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