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<p><font size="3" face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:white;" dir="ltr">== WORD REQUEST MESSAGE ==<br>
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<p>- for the N:th time</p>
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<p>Example sentences:<br>
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<p>- The third time I saw you, I began to experience parmaq.<br>
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<p>- I will see my doctor for the third time tomorrow.</p>
<p>- I played Qavbogh DI'ruj ngeb wa'maH vagh for the one-thousandth time yesterday.</p>
<p>- While I was reading the book for the second time, I noticed a grammatical error.</p>
<p>- Do you remember the first time we danced together?<br>
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<p>You might also consider a sentence that doesn't make much sense in English:</p>
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<p>- On the how-many:th date do Klingons normally do it for the first time? <br>
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<p>There are currently some decent workarounds, but I feel they're a lot more cumbersome than they need be; I usually end up with something like "When I'd done something (N-1) times, while I was doing it again, before I had finished doing it..."</p>
<p>You also sometimes get into situations where it's unclear if you mean "I ate pizza for the third time yesterday." vs. "I ate pizza three times yesterday."<br>
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<p>Sometimes there are handy nouns available (Hegh wanI'wIj wa'DIch vIqawchu'.), but other times you're left with -ghach, which works well for simple sentences (qaStaHvIS ja'chuqtaHghachmaj cha'DIch, chovuQqu'.) is troublesome for complex sentences ("the third
time my mother and I went hunting for targs in the forest together").<br>
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<p>This could potentially be handled using a new numerical suffix.</p>
<p>...or perhaps even by combining -DIch and -logh? <br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 25, 2017 15:30<br>
<b>To:</b> tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tlhIngan Hol] mu' chu' chabal tetlh!</font>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/25/2017 9:39 AM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:<br>
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<p>== DISCUSSION ONLY ==</p>
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<p>> We can say <strong>DorDI' Hogh</strong> and we generally accept <strong>taghDI' Hogh,</strong></p>
<p>> so I'm not devastated by this lack. (I wouldn't mind a verb for<em><br>
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<p><em>> begin [a period of time does this]</em>.)<br>
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<p>There is quite a lot of canon support for {tagh} having a dual syntax:<br>
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<p><strong>tagh </strong>[event]. = "[Event] begins."</p>
<p>[event] <strong>tagh</strong> [agent]. = "[Agent] starts [event]."</p>
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<p>I'm not referring to dual syntax; I mean <b>tagh</b> is glossed <i>begin a process, initiate,</i> which might suggest that it refers only to processes or events, not to time periods. All of the examples of
<b>tagh</b> you provided refer to events or processes, except possibly <strong>tagh HarghchuqmeH poH,</strong> which is a time period defined by an event. The question is, does a week "start a process, initiate"?<br>
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