tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 01 19:03:01 2000
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Re: KLBC: calculate in Klingon
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: calculate in Klingon
- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 22:03:29 -0500
>>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?
Hello? It's the klingon usage we're discussing here.
DloraH