<html><head></head><body dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">HochHom Dujmaj Qaw’pu’ jagh: wej loch cha’.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I really like this translation. A lot of Klingon math grammar is clunky, but this works with uncommon smoothness.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My own attempt had to do with my unresolved struggles with {-moH}, trying to figure out how {lochHom} could be used.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After fixing the obvious word order blunder:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">DujmeymajvaD Qaw’ta’bogh jagh lochmoH wej wavbogh cha’</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Two which is divided by three causes a fraction to be for our ships which the enemy has destroyed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Even if it works, it is torturous, as are many sentences with a {-vaD} noun and a main verb with {-moH}.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 22, 2021, at 11:58 AM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">'op ret {loch} wot chenmoHta'DI' 'oqranD, SIbI' jIQubpu':
< maj, DaH mu'vam vIlo'taHvIS, jIjatlhlaH "the enemy
destroyed two thirds of our ships". > 'a {loch}
vIlo'taHvIS, not mu'tlheghvam vIqonlaHpu' ghIq 'e' vItlhoj.<br class="">
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<div class="">vaj chay' mu'vam lo'laH vay' jay'? *lo'laHbe'chu'law'
mu'vam.</div>
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</blockquote><p class=""><b class="">mID HubmeH Sa', yo' Hoch lochbogh nawlogh ngeHpu'.<br class="">
</b><i class="">To defend the colony, the general has sent a squadron, a
fraction of the entire fleet.</i></p><p class=""><b class="">mangghommaj Sangpu' jagh. majeghnIS.<br class="">
</b><i class="">The enemy has obliterated our army. We must surrender.<br class="">
</i><b class="">bo'Degh'a' Dalo'. QaSmaj lochwI' mach HoHpu'. yap noDmeH
HoSmaj.<br class="">
</b><i class="">You exaggerate. They have killed a small fraction of our
troops. We have the strength to retaliate.</i></p><p class="">I might even expect something like this:<br class="">
<b class=""></b></p><p class=""><b class="">HochHom Dujmaj Qaw'pu' jagh: wej loch cha'.<br class="">
</b><i class="">The enemy has destroyed two-thirds of our ships.<br class="">
</i>(Literally, "The enemy has destroyed most of our ships:
two-thirds.")<br class="">
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