<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="">For whatever reason, every instance of {bID} in the word list combined as a compound noun or noun noun construction uses {bID} as the last word:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">moQbID</div><div class="">qubbID</div><div class="">DIr bID</div><div class="">paH bID</div><div class="">yopwaH bID</div><div class="">DIr paH bID</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While number words tend to precede the nouns they modify, {bID} acts more like a modifier. While it’s not an adjectival verb, it might be thought of more like a typical noun-noun construction. “Half of a utility deck” or “a utility deck’s half”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We don’t think of the word “whole” as a number. If you think of “half” as being related to “whole”, then perhaps you can avoid the assumption that it works just like a number in English. It apparently doesn’t have to be a number in Klingon. I’m not sure it can be a number in Klingon, though those who know canon can probably answer that better than I can.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 12, 2020, at 9:14 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 dir="auto" class="">SuStel:<div dir="auto" class="">> pawpu' poH luSopbogh nov. ghIq wa' vI' </div><div dir="auto" class="">> vagh DIS luSoppu'.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I've thought of this solution, but the thing I can't understand, is why {bID} is used as the second noun in {paH bID} etc, while at the "half utility deck" its' use is seemingly/apparently weird.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">~ lIr qIj</div></div>
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