[tlhIngan Hol] Dop Hurgh lo'laHghach

[mayqel qunenoS]

ok, pause and rewind..

SuStel
> Dochmey HochHom luyajHa' nuvpu'
> people misunderstand the things' majority
> People misunderstand the majority. The majority of what?
> Things. There are things, and people misunderstand the majority.

I got lost again; lets approach this from another angle.. And lets
take this step by step, in order to discover what it is I'm actually
not understanding here.

Let me ask you this:

sentence A: people misunderstand the things' majority
sentence B: people misunderstand a/the majority of things

Forget klingon for a moment; In english, what is the difference
between sentence A and sentence B ? Is there one to start with ?

The only difference I'm able to see is that sentence A sounds somewhat
awkward. That aside, I can't see any other difference.

qunnoH

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 6:40 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, thanks. finally I understand..
>
> qunnoH jan puqloD
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 6:36 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
>> On 11/8/2016 11:26 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
>>
>> So, -and correct me if my understanding is wrong-, the {Dochmey
>> HochHom} is grammaticaly identical to the {Dochmey mI'}. But we tend
>> to accept the {Dochmey HochHom} as being correct -in order to convey
>> our intented meaning-, because the {HochHom} is acting like an
>> adjectival verb (although it is not).
>>
>>
>> No. Dochmey HochHom and Dochmey mI' are indeed grammatically identical
>> (except you've been using mI' as a plural, so it's an implicit Dochmey
>> mI'mey). We are not making exceptions to accommodate the meaning we want.
>>
>> Dochmey HochHom luyajHa' nuvpu'
>> people misunderstand the things' majority
>>
>> People misunderstand the majority. The majority of what? Things. There are
>> things, and people misunderstand the majority.
>>
>> Dochmey mI' yajHa' nuvpu'
>> people misunderstand the things' numbers
>>
>> People misunderstand the numbers, the quantity. The numbers of what? Things.
>> There are things, and people misunderstand how many of them there are.
>>
>> This was Ed's original, correct objection. Dochmey mI' doesn't mean "a lot
>> of things" or "several things." It means "the number of things," "the count
>> of things," "how many things there are."
>>
>> --
>> SuStel
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