[2477] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: lup Hoch yIyInqu'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 7 14:11:18 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: Mark Reed <Mark.Reed@cad.gatech.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 14:11:17 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199401071655.LAA00580@startide.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Mark E. Sh
oulson" at Jan 7, 94 11:55:07 am
\Hate to be the one to rain on an otherwise lovely parade, but it seems to
\me that there's a small problem with the grammar here. When using numerals
\to indicate how many somethings, the number comes *first*, so it should be
\"wa'netlh ?yInpu'". Putting the number afterwards makes it "lives number
\10,000". Personally, I think "yInmey" makes more sense than "?yInpu'".
\Lives aren't speaking creatures, tho the livers may be. This may be
\debatable.
I managed to fail to mention this in my last post, but your
misreading of the sentence accounts for this as well - the noun
'yInmey' *does* come after the number . . .
-marqoS
