tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 19 10:40:12 2003
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RE: 'aH tIQ
At 09:54 AM 4/18/03 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, DloraH wrote:
> > > QublaHchugh ghom'a' QeH vaj qubbej wanI'vetlh.
> > >
> > > "If an angry crowd (singular) could think, then that would be a
> > > rare event."
> > >
> > > The sentence mentions only the one hypothetical event of an angry crowd
> > > thinking. It is because angry mobs are not usually capable of thinking
> > > that makes it a rare event when they do.
> >
> > That klingon sentence can be singular or plural.
> > It is not unambiguously singular.
Yes it could be singular or plural. But I am usually inclined to include a
plural indicator if it is in fact plural, "ghom'a'mey" in this case, just
to avoid ambiguity.
SuSvaj