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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] One dog or five cats ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Sat Sep 23 04:01:55 2017
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:16:06 -0400
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On 9/22/2017 9:14 AM, SuStel wrote:
> On 9/22/2017 9:09 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
>> ok, I understand. However, if one wrote {nenbogh 'ej yoHbogh wa'
>> Human}, then that would be correct too, right ?
>
> There's nothing technically wrong with it. However, it violates my
> sense of adjective order. We're not dealing exactly with adjectives
> here, but the effect is the same.
>
Mind you, that's an English rule. There's no guarantee that Klingons
have anything like it. Given their strictly ordered suffixes and word
order, however, I wouldn't be surprised if there were such a thing.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/22/2017 9:14 AM, SuStel wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:b561218c-88b7-1f8c-7cc2-1d188e275b03@trimboli.name">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/22/2017 9:09 AM, mayqel qunenoS
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAP7F2cLegfSZZRe855GrGz-sJa449EB8R79389jSb+d5aBrKAw@mail.gmail.com"><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.6547px">ok, I
understand. However, if one wrote </span><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.6547px">{</span><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.6547px">nenbogh 'ej
yoHbogh wa' Human}, then that would be correct too, right ?</span></blockquote>
<p>There's nothing technically wrong with it. However, it violates
my sense of adjective order. We're not dealing exactly with
adjectives here, but the effect is the same.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Mind you, that's an English rule. There's no guarantee that
Klingons have anything like it. Given their strictly ordered
suffixes and word order, however, I wouldn't be surprised if there
were such a thing.<br>
</p>
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