tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 02 13:57:15 2002
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Re: question #5 'more x than y'
- From: "Sangqar (Sean Healy)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: question #5 'more x than y'
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 18:57:10 +0000
> > X law' law' Y law' puS
> > "X is more numerous than Y"
>
>Yes, THAT is the answer!
>actually, I already thought about that, but it looks weird to say law'
>twice.
Well, if you're not too attached to strict grammaticality:
As a form of word play, antonyms...other than {law'} and {puS} are sometimes
plugged into the formula. The resulting phrases literally make no sense at
all, but because of the uniqueness of the {law'/puS} phrases within Klingon
grammar, they are always understood. (KGT, p. 178)
Some of the antonym phrases it gives a potential replacements are:
HoS/puj
pIv/rop
Daj/qetlh
jen/'eS
ghegh/Hab
Qatlh/ngeD
It also mentions that if neither word in the quality pair is inherently
better than the other, they may come in either order (it specifically
mentions jen/'eS and ghegh/Hab), but if one is better, the better one must
come first (it specifically mentions Qatlh/ngeD).
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