<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 9:37 AM, David Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenjutsuka@live.com" target="_blank">kenjutsuka@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The Klingon dictionary is clear that numbers "may stand alone as subjects or objects or they may modify another noun." It is an easy logical leap to treat {'ar} in the same way, but {'ar} is not a type of number and so that may not be allowed. TKD says only
that {'ar} "follows the noun to which it refers." Does anyone know if any canon which uses {'ar} as a stand alone subject or object? What do you think of that use of it and particularly if teaching that use of it?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>In Power Klingon, <span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">it's apparently used as a standalone *verb*:</span></div><br>"If somehow you find something you are permitted to buy, such as food you can eat right away, you will need to know how to ask only one question: <How much?> {'ar.}"<br><br>In its typical use following a noun, I think of {'ar} as an interrogative adjective.<br><br>-- ghunchu'wI'</div></div></div>