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Re: [Tlhingan-hol]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Mon Oct 17 16:32:00 2011
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From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:31:22 -0400
To: "tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org" <tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org>
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ja' Voragh:
> It might just be my dialect, but {'op} "some" implies "few" or at least "not many"...
> I think of {'op} as being the opposite of {HochHom} "most, greater part",...
I too disagree with that understanding. I think {'op} just means an
unspecified number. It implies a number greater than zero, and I
wouldn't use it when the number is likely to be all of the population
being considered, but I don't know that doing so would be wrong.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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