[1576] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Between
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 15 17:06:21 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: "Matthew Whiteacre" <[128.194.3.85]!mmw8970@ima.ima.isc.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 14:39:26 CDT
On Wed, 15 Sep 93 12:57:33 -0400, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
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>>From: Will Martin <whm2m@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>
>>Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 14:00:08 EDT
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>>> (cha' wa'vatlhDaq DeQmeywij 'oH Dochvam 'e')
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>>Suggestion:
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>>(cha' wa'vatlhvI' DeQmeywIj 'oH Dochvam'e')
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>Oh, lovely! I really didn't like the way {cha' wa'vatlhDaq} looked at all,
>but had nothing better. {vatlhvI'} really does the job far better. That's
>a construction I hope we allow ourselves to generalize, using {?-vI'} as a
>fraction suffix (like "-th" in English or Esperanto "-on"). We really need
>one, otherwise the only fraction we have is {bID}="half".
>
>>-- charghwI'
>
>~mark
I seem to be missing something here. Would it not be right to say:
(cha' vatlhvI' DeQmeywIj 'oH Dochvam'e')
Why put the wa' in there. With it I read that as 21% except there is not
tens forming element?
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