tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 17 15:29:23 1999
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Re: KLBC: Room number
'oghwI' wrote:
> If I wanted to say room 5 would that be
> pagh pa'
> or
> pa' pagh?
> I think it's the first one.
Voragh (me) impulsively replied:
: Nope, the second. For example:
: [clip]
: {pagh pa'} is "five rooms". Plural suffixes are optional in Klingon,
: especially following numbers. This could also mean "Pagh's room"
DloraH:
: pagh - zero
: vagh - five
DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'!
I must have looked at this for over ten minutes as I wrote my careful (so I thought) reply. "I don't need to look anything up," I thought. "I know the numbers!" Apparently not.
I guess I was distracted by the potential word play with {pagh} to notice that this wasn't the number 5 at all! Well, at least it *was* a number, so my point is still valid...
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons