[3095] in tlhIngan-Hol
"Each ship has one captain" (was: re: {-moH})
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 10 04:47:51 1994
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From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (Marnen Laibow-Koser )
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 4:37:53 EST
In-Reply-To: <199402071529.KAA03848@startide.ctr.columbia.edu>; from "Mark E. S
houlson" at Feb 7, 94 10:29 am
jatlhta' ~mark:
:
: >On Feb 4, 4:20pm, joy'wI' wrote and charghwI' responds:
[...]
: >> Also: how does one say "per" as in "there is one captain per ship"?
:
: > wa' HoD neH ghaj Dujmey Hoch
:
: This works (I believe marqoS put the neH in front; charghwI' is right. It
: goes after), tho it seems to me more likely to be understood that all the
: ships collectively have one captain (especially if you conjugate the verb
: correctly and use "lughaj"). Truly, though, in most situations even the
: powerful ambiguity here would probably be ok. You could also do "wa' HoD
: neH ghaj wa' Duj" (one ship has one captain; this has the ambiguity that
: you may not be talking about the ships in general, but that's also a very
: minor thing. Natural languages simply aren't unambiguous). Maybe
: something bizarre like "wa' Duj HoD ghaH wa' loD'e' neH". I think I like
: "wa' HoD neH ghaj wa' Duj" best.
How about >wa' HoD ghajbej wa' Duj Hoch< -- "every 1 ship has [exactly, hence
the >-bej< -- or should that be >-chu'<?] 1 captain"?
:
: ~mark
:
:
Qapla' jachqemwi'vo'.
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