tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 19 22:09:41 1996
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RE: jIlIH'eghqa'
- From: "Kenneth Traft" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: jIlIH'eghqa'
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 96 05:12:37 UT
From: [email protected] on behalf of Alan Anderson
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 1996 10:36 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: jIlIH'eghqa'
>An ordinal number might be able to stand alone without a specific noun,
>but the only example we have of this happening is the term {cha'DIch}
>used with a particular ritual meaning (disturbingly similar to the idea
>of a "second" in a duel). It might not be generalizable to other uses,
>so it's probably safer to use a noun to indicate, for instance, that one
>is referring to {paq wa'DIch} "the first *book*", or {lojmIt wejDIch}
>"the third *door*".
Glen Prochel mentioned to me that ine the Skybox card S-15 Dr. Okrand used
<<wa'DIch tlhIngan Dujmey>> for first Klingon vessels. He believes this puts
wa'DIch and other <<-DIch>> formed words in the adverb category.
>I hope this helps, and I hope nobody gets mad at me for answering. Usually
>questions from beginners are handled by the Beginners' Grammarian ...
I thought that as long as it did not contain KLBC it was in general domain
and that any member of the list could respond to it.