tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 28 21:26:34 1997
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Re: KLBC: jIlIH'eghqa'
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:37:16 -0700 (PDT) "Mark E. Shoulson"
<[email protected]> writes:
>>> >wa'maH wa' ben, chorgh ben, jav ben je bogh puqbe'wI'.
>>>
>>> Is this really valid? using multiple time expressions set off by
commas.
>>
>>There are no rules saying you can do this. There are no rules saying
you
>>cannot do this. Since {ben} is a noun, being quantified by numbers, I
don't
>>see why it shouldn't be possible. Even something like {DaHjaj wa'leS
je
>>jISop} "I will eat today and tomorrow" should work.
>
>Maybe so, but I think his question is really pretty good. {DaHjaj
wa'leS
>je jISop} may work, though it's still an... interesting construction.
But
>your original sentence is even more original, since there's a
"respectively" implied
>somewhere there.
>
>~mark
>
I really don't see a "respectively" in the original statement. All I
meant to say is:
"My daughters are 11, 8, and 6 years old."
If I had said "My daughters, Monica, Sylvia, and Alicia and 11, 8, and 6
years old" there is an implied "respectively. Maybe my English
monolingualism (is this a word?) is showing.