tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 01 10:47:11 1996
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Re: Grammar and words in TKW
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Grammar and words in TKW
- Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 12:49:59 -0500
SuStel writes:
>Of course, we now know exactly how to use {Hoch}. No longer can we put it
>AFTER the noun! pp. 33, 51, 74, 136
Don't be so sure. Skybox card S15 translates the phrase "most of the
twenty-third century" as {tera' vatlh DIS poH cha'maH wej HochHom}.
The previously unknown {HochHom} is obviously used as a noun in some
sort of noun-noun phrase with a partitive meaning. {Hoch} as a noun
ought to follow the same grammatical rules. The usage in TKW doesn't
prohibit it from following nouns, it just shows it can precede them.
We should ask for an explanation of *why* this is permitted, though,
since it is a novel grammar unless {Hoch} is treated like a number.
>We get "a few" = {puS}, as in "a few pipiusus" = {pIpyuS puS} p. 185
Check TKD -- {puS} has had that meaning all along.
>It is now confirmed that a Fek'lhr is a being capable of using language, as
>the proverb calls tham {veqlarghlI'} and {veqlarghwI'}. p. 197
The holographic image of the Fek'lhr we saw in "Devil's Due" spoke, but
I guess that didn't prove anything; Worf immediately said "You are *not*
the Fek'lhr!"
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