tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 03 00:05:39 2000
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QovvaD jIjang (Was: Re: KLIC - My thesis project)
- From: Carleton Copeland <[email protected]>
- Subject: QovvaD jIjang (Was: Re: KLIC - My thesis project)
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:04:42 +-300
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jatlh Qov:
> It will likely cost you $40. Ask at your local "airport."
> [Will someone please tell me in what language reversing
> the order of the number and the countable conveys the idea
> of "approximate." It's bugging me.]
qu'! pab DaSov 'ach Hol Dangu'laHbe'. law'qu'ba' Hol DaHaDbogh, Qov!
Stoit sorok dollarov = It costs forty dollars
Stoit dollarov sorok = It costs about forty dollars
Prepositions make it curiouser still:
dollarov za sorok = for about forty dollars
qaqawmoHta''a'?
(Qov QaHlaHmo' quvbogh) qa'ral