<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="">Good question. Unless the Canon people have an answer, this is one of those areas where Houston, we have a problem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TKD and every other official source of Klingon vocabulary collectively fail to indicate whether specific nouns that imply a number are singular or plural, and English is very arbitrary about this.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Everybody is singular. Doubt that? “Everybody wants to be happy.” Sounds right. “Everybody want to be happy.” Sounds wrong. Is wrong. See?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All are plural. “All want to be happy.” </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">{Hoch} can be translated as “everybody” or as “all”. So, is it singular or plural?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Zero are plural. “Zero want to be sad.” Yes. In English, any number other than one is grammatically plural, so the word “zero" is grammatically plural in English. So, is {pagh} plural?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some are plural. “Some want popcorn.” Does Klingon follow the English convention? Maybe, but this is hardly given, until it is explicitly given.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And, there is the possibility that Klingon is simply internally inconsistent. If Canon people find examples of these words used inconsistently, then maybe it’s regional, or slang, or simply something that never calcified within the grammar. Maybe it's squishy.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 13, 2019, at 12:12 PM, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">ok thanks.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">But out of curiosity.. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Does the {'op} on its own, need to be treated as grammatically singular or plural ?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Do we have any Ca'Non on this matter ? Or is it one of those "ask qeylIS" matters ?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">~ mayqel qunen'oS</div><div dir="auto" class="">tlhIngan Hol naDjaj Hoch</div></div>
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