[tlhIngan Hol] joining numbers used for numbering by {je} and conjunctions

[Alan Anderson]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 8:57 AM mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is an interesting option, although I wonder.. Couldn't the {DuSmey
> wa' cha' je} be understood as if we have two separate groups of torpedo
> tubes, which we go on by labeling each group as "flood the group of torpedo
> tubes one", and "flood the group of torpedo tubes two"?
>

It could only be understood that way if there were indeed separate groups
of torpedo tubes. If that's the case, then it's ambiguous however you say
it -- at least if both the groups and the individual tubes are called *DuS* and
numbered. I wouldn't expect that sort of system to survive as a viable
usage, and I would expect the tube groups to be called *ghommey* or
*DaHmey* and
the individual tubes to be called *DuSmey*.

-- ghunchu'wI'
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