tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 11 09:35:16 1999
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Order of ordinals
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Order of ordinals
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:30:29 EST
(I noticed a point about this example when it was cited in connection with a
different topic, so I changed the subject.)
S15 (Reproduced in HolQeD v4n3p5.)
{wa'DIch tlhIngan Dujmey luleghlu'pu'bogh rur qItI'nga' Duj tera' vatlh DIS
poH cha'maH wej HochHom lo'lu'taH.}
Similar in configuration to the first Klingon vessels encountered, the
K'Tinga-Class
remained in use for most of the 23rd century.
TKD p. 54 says:
Ordinal numbers follow the noun.
meb cha'DIch second guest
But the Skybox example has {wa'DIch tlhIngan Dujmey luleghlu'pu'bogh} as "the
first Klingon vessels encountered". The ordinal number precedes the noun.
(In {tera' vatlh DIS poH cha'maH wej} "Terran century 23", we have, not an
ordinal, but what the same TKD page calls "a number ... used for numbering".)
Apparently this is another lapse by MO. {tlhIngan Dujmey wa'DIch
luleghlu'pu'bogh} wouldn't have been unclear to me. Others' reactions?
--jey'el