tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 23 12:55:33 1999
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RE: KLBC: Conjunctions for Numbers
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Conjunctions for Numbers
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:55:31 -0700
jatlh DujHoD:
> 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:
TKD says "Numbers are used as nouns. As such, they may stand alone as
subjects or objects or they may modify other nouns." Based on that, and on
at least one canon example - Kruge's <wa' yIHoH!> - I see no problem with
using noun conjunctions with numbers. The one sticky point is that <joq>
doesn't usually work well with numbers.
> cha' wej je ghap jIbaHta'. I fired two or three torpedoes.
The <ghap> is fine, but you have a <je> in there that doesn't belong, and
the prefix should be <vI->. If context makes it clear what is being fired
(torpedoes, targs, etc.), then this is fine.
> Or do you have to say one of the following:
> cha' cha, wej cha ghap jIbaHta'.
> I fired two torpedoes or three torpedoes.
Prefix again - <vI->.
> cha' cha jIbaHta' pagh wej cha jIbaHta'.
> I fired two torpedoes or I fired three torpedoes.
And again.
> I'm guessing that the first sentence doesn't work but the
> second two do. jIlugh'a'?
With corrections, all three work. I suppose it just depends on how wordy you
want to be.
pagh
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