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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] (no subject)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Mon Oct 17 17:03:11 2011
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:57:07 -0700
To: tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6031E43536B37@EVS02.ad.uchi
cago.edu>
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Daj. jIjatlhchugh <ngaSwI'vamDaq Doq 'op paSlogh 'ej SuD 'op paSlogh>
bIjatlh'a' <chay' nguv latlh paSlogh?>?
That is, if I said "some socks in this container are red and some are
blue," you would feel that as the red and blue contingents each
represented less than half, that there must be more socks of a colour
I haven't yet specified, required to make up the entirety of my sock
collection?
I might respond that way if the sentence were <ngaSwI'vamDaq Doq
paSlogh puS 'ej SuD paSlogh puS>, but I might also just assume that
there were only a few socks total in there.
At 13:47 17/10/2011, you wrote:
>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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