tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 21 20:09:13 1999
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Re: KLBC: Conjunctions for Numbers
>From: [email protected]
>Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 08:25:19 EDT
>
>In English, the conjunction "or" can be used with numbers, as in "I fired two
>or three torpedoes." How do you say this in Klingon? Can you say:
>
>cha' wej je ghap jIbaHta'. I fired two or three torpedoes.
>
>Or do you have to say one of the following:
>
>cha' cha, wej cha ghap jIbaHta'. I fired two torpedoes or three torpedoes.
>cha' cha jIbaHta' pagh wej cha jIbaHta'. I fired two torpedoes or I fired
>three torpedoes.
>
>I'm guessing that the first sentence doesn't work but the second two do.
>jIlugh'a'?
We don't know; I personally don't have much problem with, say {cha' cha,
wej ghap vIbaHta'} (I fired two torpedos, or three). Or your later
sentences (your first one had several problems, including an extraneous
{je} and no noun for torpedoes... which by itself would be okay in another
sense: {wej cha' ghap vIbaHta'}, I fired two or three (noun implied).
Numbers can be used as nouns). Note also the prefix.
~mark