tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 03 15:24:02 1999
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pengmey (was Re: KLBC: Conjunctions for Numbers)
ja' peHruS:
>[email protected] writes:
>[...]
> probably should have used {peng} instead of {cha}; maybe that's a hair less
> controversial (since Klingon singular nouns can at least usually also be
> plural) >>
>=============
>DaH jIQoch.
SuQoch SoH TKD je.
>law'DI' Doch qelbogh tlhIngan Hol DIp, mojaq {-mey} wIlo'nISbe'
>net Sov. 'ach cha law' DellaHbe' DIp {peng} 'e' vIHar. wa' peng neH
>wIghajtaHvIS DIp {peng} wIlo'laH 'e' vIQub. law'DI', DIp {cha} wIlo'nIS 'e'
>vIQub.
Page 24 says explicitly that the singular forms of the irregular plural
nouns may have a plural suffix added. It also tells us that it carries
the "scattered all about" idea: {pengmey} "torpedoes all over the place".
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh