<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:28 AM Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">(HQ 9.3): Reversing the dividend and the divisor changes the equation.  {javlogh boqHa''egh wej} would be 3 ÷ 6 and the answer would be a fraction<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">And we know how to do those now.</div></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>Fractions</b><br><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>wej loch cha'</b> "2/3"; <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><b>vagh loch wej</b> "3/5"; <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><b>loS loch jav</b> "6/4". In theory, if appropriate in a mathematical discussion, one could say <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><b>wa' loch wej</b> "three one–ths". (Though perhaps a little grammatically aberrant, this would not be <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><b>wa' luloch wej</b>.))<br></blockquote><a href="https://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-javdich/qepa-chamah-javdich-canon/">https://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-javdich/qepa-chamah-javdich-canon/</a></div><div>Based on <b>loch</b> "be a fraction of, make up a portion of, constitute part of"<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">So we can finally finish the math example from the HolQeD article with <b>javlogh boqHa''egh wej; chen jav loch wej</b>. (I'm assuming that fractions work as a unique type of noun phrase in sentences even though they're constructed as complete sentences. Otherwise they would be quite difficult to actually use.)<br></div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>