tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 16 13:44:45 1997
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Re: KLBC: Short and Easy
In article <l03020901b0bc2965df61@[206.150.220.132]>, Alan Anderson
<[email protected]> writes
>James Coupe jang Qov:
>>}nganpu' Hogh tIHoH
>>It wasn't until I read this out loud to my husband, in puzzlement at the
>>peculiar method someone was suggesting for conquering a planet, that I
>>realized you probably meant, "Kill the weak inhabitants!"
>
>I read it as a typo for a misplaced {Hoch}: "Kill all the inhabitants."
>If that's indeed what you wanted, James, we've learned that this sort of
>usage of {Hoch} treats it a little like a number.
>
>"All the inhabitants" is {Hoch nganpu'}. It's not an average noun-noun
>construction. Since the second word is explicitly marked as plural, the
>translation of {Hoch} is "all". But {Hoch ngan}, with an unmarked noun,
>would be translated "each inhabitant" or "every inhabitant".
>
>This information comes from Marc Okrand, via HolQeD 5:2.
>
>
Ah. Thank you.
--
James Coupe (remove some crap to reply)
Pah!! I hope it shits in your jogging suit!