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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/11/2021 7:04 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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cite="mid:CAP7F2cJuWx4gypKUSXpMfKE_3ycmG-cXqpOCwF5r6EbW=kOrWw@mail.gmail.com">The
word {leS} was given as "days from now". Not "day/days from now".
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<div dir="auto">It *could* have been given though as "day from
now", and noone would even flinch at hearing {wej leS} because
adding a plural suffix isn't necessary. However, it was rather
given as "days from now".</div>
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<div dir="auto">And then we have the {wa'leS} for "tomorrow",
which actually means "one days from now". On the other hand
though, people do not usually say "one days from now"; they say
"one day from now".</div>
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<div dir="auto">So where am I going with all this?</div>
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<div dir="auto">If we can say {wa'leS} for "one days from now",
then how is it any different from the following?</div>
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<div dir="auto">wa' yaSpu'vam </div>
<div dir="auto">one of these officers<br>
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<div dir="auto">wa' ghomvam</div>
<div dir="auto">one of this group</div>
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<div dir="auto">wa' ray'vam</div>
<div dir="auto">one of these targets</div>
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<p>But you're not suggesting that <b>wa'leS</b> means <i>one of
these days from now, </i>so your other suggestions don't follow
the same pattern.</p>
<p>You're reasoning from an English gloss, not the obvious Klingon
meaning. We have these time words, <b>leS, Hu', ben, nem, waQ,
wen, </b>which all work the same way: add a number to it, and
it indicates a point in the future or past. The words represent a
unit size.</p>
<p>So I reject your suggestions as ungrammatical and your reasoning
as based on unnecessarily specific demands on the English glosses.<br>
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