tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 17 15:10:30 2004
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Re: -Daq on numbers?
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: -Daq on numbers?
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:55:35 +1000
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jIghItlhpu':
>If we can use a number as a noun (representing one of a group here), then
>that should mean that we can use noun suffixes on them. {wa'qoq yIHoH}
>"kill
>the so-called one of them" (for instance, talking about an impostor) might
>be difficult to interpret, but it *appears* to make more sense in Klingon
>than it does in English.
mujang voragh:
>Really? This sounds like gibberish to me - in either language. He isn't a
>"so-called one" - what is he, actually a "two"? - but rather a so-called
>something (e.g. a so-called warrior, a so-called diplomat, a so-called
>scientist). Still, we could ask Maltz.
It made sense to me, anyway. {{:D What I mean is that if <wa' yIHoH> means
"Kill one (of them)", then <wa'qoq yIHoH> would mean "Kill a so-called one
(of them)". But I see your point - it really means more "Kill one" than
"Kill one of them".
Unless we're talking about multiple personalities: perhaps <vagh nuv ghaH
'e' Har'a'? vaghqoq tIHoH>, "He thinks he's five people? Kill the so-called
five!" {{:)
Savan.
QeS lagh
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