[tlhIngan Hol] useless useless {loch} verb

[Will Martin]

Okay, the weird thing is that {wej loch cha’} is grammatically, a complete sentence. So, “2/3” is a complete sentence.

wejpuH.

So, how do you USE this complete sentence within another complete sentence?

Dujmeymaj wej lochbogh cha’ Qaw’ta’ jagh?

Dujmeymaj’e’ Qaw'bogh jagh toghmeH wej loch cha’?

I don’t see how to use it grammatically like a number, or an adjective to apply it to a noun, which is generally what we want to apply it to.

I get the feeling that this is like speech or like comparisons, in that it involves some special grammar we have not been introduced to yet.

charghwI’ ‘utlh
(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)



> On Apr 23, 2021, at 4:44 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
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> 
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 at 17:06, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun at gmail.com <mailto:mihkoun at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Sojvam vIQulqa'ta', 'ej 'op Ca'Non mu'tlhegh tu'lu', 'a napchu' mu'tlheghmeyvam:
> 
> wej loch cha'
> vagh loch wej
> loS loch jav
> wa' loch wej
> 
> Do'Ha' QaHlaHbe' mu'tlheghmeyvam.
> 
> The original text is here:
> https://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-javdich/qepa-chamah-javdich-canon/ <https://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-javdich/qepa-chamah-javdich-canon/> 
> <<{wej loch cha’} “2/3”; {vagh loch wej} “3/5”; {loS loch jav} “6/4”. In theory, if appropriate in a mathematical discussion, one could say {wa’ loch wej} “three one–ths”. (Though perhaps a little grammatically aberrant, this would not be {wa’ luloch wej}.))>>
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> De'vID
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