tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 11 23:47:45 1996
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n a message dated 96-03-11 16:45:17 EST, you write:
>>>wa'DIch, *pIcarD* wIHoHnIS
>>This "adverbial" use of {wa'DIch} isn't mentioned in TKD, and I don't know
>>of any canon examples of it. I don't like it.
> Why not? It clearly translates to "First, we must kill Picard". I'm not
>quite sure you think that this doesn't work. Isn't the point of adding
>{-DIch} to numbers to list first, second, etc...?
wa'DIch refers to Adjectival use of numbers to modify Nouns.
Try: latlh wIta'pa' *pIcarD* wIHoHnIS
For "secondly", "thirdly," etc. it's simply vaj vaj vaj vaj ad infinitum.
Or, maybe the experts have some other ideas.
peHruS