[tlhIngan Hol] Dop Hurgh lo'laHghach

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Tue Nov 8 09:08:43 PST 2016


On 11/8/2016 11:53 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
> 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.

Correct. One wouldn't colloquially say A, but they're identical in meaning.

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