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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/1/2017 11:32 AM,
demonchaux.aurelie wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:59a97deb.84901c0a.b32e.4404@mx.google.com">Thank you all
for your replies and thoughts on this !<br>
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<i>
HIq qIj reghuluS 'Iw HIq ghap jab <br>
<br>
They serve Black Ale or Regulan bloodwine. (CK)<br>
<br>
{A B ghap jab} “they serve them” not {lujab} “they serve it”</i><br>
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This is a great example, and I think this gives us the solution,
thank you for digging it up! <br>
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I was convinced that if A and B were both singular, "A B ghap"
would be considered singular when choosing the verb prefix, and
that's why I thought joq might be singular in those cases, and I
couldnt choose between singular or plural. But this proves the
contrary !<br>
<br>
So, to sum up, whether A and B are singular or plural, and whether
we use je or ghap, A + B + je / ghap is always plural.<br>
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Logically, A + B + joq is thus also always plural ! <br>
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So the correct sentence in my example is: <br>
vIraS Hol tlhIngan Hol joq DIghojnIS<br>
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tuQaHmo' Satlho' :)</blockquote>
<p>It's an interesting data point, but I wouldn't jump to that
conclusion. Okrand forgets the prefix <b>lu-</b> often enough
that he even points out that Klingons forget <b>lu-</b> more than
any other prefix.</p>
<p>Then there's this example from <i>HolQeD</i> 12:2<i>,</i> which
seems to contradict your analysis:</p>
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<p><b>naQ megh'an 'er'In ghap yI'uch<br>
</b><i>grasp either end of the stick</i></p>
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<p>The words <b>'er'In</b> and <b>megh'an</b> are <i>definitely</i>
intended to be singular here. If a <b>ghap</b> construction
always got interpreted as plural, the verb should have been <b>tI'uch,</b>
but it wasn't. And yes, sometimes Okrand forgets to use <b>tI-</b>
and uses <b>yI-</b> instead. So we have two contradictory
conclusions, each of which is based on examples with grammatical
rules that Okrand commonly gets wrong.<br>
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<p>Finally, even in English we don't use one consistent rule. <i>Either
Bob or Linda are coming over.</i> A finicky grammarian would
complain that the verb should have been <i>is;</i> nobody else
would even have noticed. I could easily see a native English
speaker, constructing a Klingon sentence, following the same fuzzy
rules.<br>
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