tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 01 15:30:25 2000
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Re: KLBC: calculate in Klingon
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- Subject: Re: KLBC: calculate in Klingon
- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 18:30:05 EST
jatlh Voragh:
>Why {*tI*chel}, not {yIchel}? 324.56 is a single number.
jang DloraH:
>3+4=7 : you have three apples, you add four more apples...
>If we wrote "three apples" it would be treated as plural and one would have
>to use tI-. If we drop the unnecessary noun "apple", would we still treat
>it as plural or does it become a grammatical singular?
We treat it as plural (e.g., "Three are present."). But do we know for
certain that Klingon works the same way? (There's probably canon on it
somewhere -- maybe even in TKD, but I'm too lazy to go get it. ;-) )
- DujHoD