<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Often, when a language lacks articles like “a” in “a cat”, speakers use the number one. {wa’ vIghro’ Qang je vIlegh.}</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 11, 2019, at 8:58 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I want to say: "I see only a cat and the chancellor". There are two options:<br class=""><br class="">{vIghro' Qang je neH vIlegh}<br class="">(vIghro neH Qang neH je vIlegh)<br class=""><br class="">Meaning-wise, perhaps the only difference is that the first means "I<br class="">see only, a cat and the chancellor", while the second says "I see only<br class="">a cat and only the chancellor".<br class=""><br class="">Other than that, which of the two would be "bettter" ? is this just a<br class="">matter of personal preference ?<br class=""><br class="">~ bara'qa'<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>