tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 04 09:54:17 1998
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Re: Yet more questions
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Yet more questions
- Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:53:56 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 07:54:53 -0800 (PST) Steven Boozer
<[email protected]> wrote:
...
> da laffin tlhIngan:
> >This might sound rather Borgish but why not "(number) of (number)"? Is
> >there an "of" in Hol?
>
> "Seven of Nine" perhaps?
>
> Quvar muHwI':
> :There is no word "of" on its own, usually verbs/nouns contain the meaning of
> :"of", or it's translated in a completely different way.
>
> In Klingon this genitive would have to be {Hut Soch} "the nine's seven", which
> cannot be distinguished from the simple two digit sequence "nine seven".
> Alternatively you could say {Hut SochDIch} "the nine's seventh, seventh of the
> nine" -- but this isn't much better.
We just can't tell. I can see several possibilities, but the
choice would be arbitrary, and likely idiomatic, and until
Okrand shows us, we can't know. My futile guesses:
Hutvo' Soch
Hutghom SochDIch
but I most prefer:
tuq Hut jeSwI' SochDIch
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Voragh "Grammatici certant et adhuc sub judice
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons lis est." Horace (Ars Poetica)
>
charghwI' 'utlh