tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 29 16:23:35 1999
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Re: KLBC: Hol vI'lo 'e' vInID (jav)
jatlh tuv'el:
> >tera' lalDanmey law' vIHaDlI'.
> >I'm studying many of Earth's religeons.
jatlh ghunchu'wI':
> {lalDanmey law'} means "many religions". I can't quite understand it as
> "many of the religions", the way you've tried to use it. The only way I
> can interpret your sentence is as "I'm studying Earth's many religions."
>
> A general-purpose partitive "of" seems to be missing from Klingon grammar.
When I read this sentence, I came up with "I'm studying many Earth
religions." This is much closer to tuv'el's "I'm studying many of Earth's
religions" than your interpretation. Not that either is "correct"; either
interpretation could be the one meant, depending on context.
SuStel
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