<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:50 AM Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-family:Pica">Adding the number suffix –<b>logh</b> changes things:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(st.klingon 2/1999): <b>'arlogh</b> <i>how many times</i>? a word that functions adverbially, made up of the question word
<b>'ar</b> <i>how much</i>? <i>How many</i>? and the special number suffix -<b>logh</b>
<i>times</i> (as in <i>six times</i>)</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I wonder if <b>'arDIch</b> is possible, meaning something like "what number?", "which position in a series?", or "how manyth?", and expecting an ordinal number <b>(wa'DIch, cha'DIch</b>, etc.) in response. German has an interrogative <i>wievielter</i> which, <b>vIqawchu'chugh</b>, has a similar meaning. <b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b>che'wI' 'arDIch ghaH <i>Barack Obama</i>'e'?</b><i> </i>"Which president was Obama?", expecting an answer like <b>che'wI' loSmaH loSDIch ghaH.</b><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b>qIj puH DujlIj 'arDIch?</b> "Which of your cars was black?" (That is, which of the cars in the series of cars you've owned was black?)</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b>QapwI' 'arDIch SoH?</b> "What place did you come in?" (I don't know how Klingons talk about placing in a competition but<b> QapwI' wa'DIch</b> for "first place", <b>QapwI' cha'DIch</b> for "second place", might work for now. Or maybe not.)<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><i></i></div></div></div>