tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 24 19:24:32 1996
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Re: "Kahless" story book
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: "Kahless" story book
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:29:00 -0500
Mark J. Reed writes:
>We don't have canon supporting ordinals as adverbs; even in English,
>this use of "first" is something of a special case, that doesn't work for other
>ordinals. How about this:
>
> <<Birthright, Part II>> lablu'DI' lo'choHlu'.
>
> When "Birthright, Part II" was transmitted, it began to be used.
This is a situation where using {-ghach} makes some sense to me.
{qaSDI' "Birthright, Part II" labta'ghach wa'DIch, 'oH lo'lu'}
"As soon as [the episode's] first transmission happened, it was used."
(The word {jabbI'ID} isn't the same kind of "transmission".)
Ordinal numbers don't necessarily work as adverbs, but by nominalizing
the verb, we can get a similar effect while using them as adjectives.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj