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Re: [Tlhingan-hol]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Oct 17 16:48:19 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org" <tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:47:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CAFK8js1KSPk9K_jC6PaCdZU=Dks6dyrUahnq8ebkH-mEf=hhQQ@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
I still see it as part of a simple progression:
none - some - half - most - all
pagh - 'op - bID - HochHom - Hoch
YMMV.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ghunchu'wI' 'utlh [mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net]
>
> 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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