tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 21 20:25:12 1997
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Re: KLBC: QAO lut
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: QAO lut
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 20:25:10 -0800
At 12:13 97-11-21 -0800, SuStel wrote:
}From: Qov <[email protected]>
}
}>It works for me, and we have canon in that a duel second is known as a
}>{cha'DIch}. That suggests that the ordinal numbers can be treated as
}>nouns--and SuStel has just pointed out in another thread that Okrand stated
}>explicitly that numbers can be subjects and
}
}I pointed this out? I don't believe I was even involved in the numbers as
}subject thread (though my memory has been otherwise occupied as of late).
Maybe it was ghunchu'wI'. DachtaH yabwIj'e'.
}
}You did not finish this sentence either. Hmmm.
vIqontaHvIS vay' vIqop 'e' vIHar. chaq rInpa' mu'tlheghvetlh nargh 'e' nID
qama'wI'.
}As for {cha'DIch}, it is possible that this is a very restricted use. It
}*is* used in a very traditional sort of way, and there's no way to know if
}it may, perhaps, be a shortened version of something longer (second
}<something>, maybe). I wouldn't go and assume that all ordinal numbers are
}normally used as nouns without more evidence.
}
}Second *what*, anyway?
The real life explanation is that they simply looked up and used the
translation of the English term second, for supporter in a duel.
chaq SuvwI' cha'DIch ghaH.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian