<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Not that it matters, but I would be inclined to say {cha’e’ wa’ cha’ je tIbuy’choHmoH}. <div><br></div><div>Then the numbers are obviously being used as nouns and the conjunction clearly makes sense. </div><div><br></div><div>I’m not suggesting that you are wrong. I’m just sharing how I’d do it. On the topic of torpedoes, flood one and two. </div><div><br></div><div>It could be misinterpreted, of course, just as your suggestion could be misinterpreted as”Flood the torpedo and one and two.” You’d flood four items. <br><br>charghwI’<br><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 22, 2022, at 8:25 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">In a previous thread we wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">(<a href="http://lists.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol-kli.org/2022-March/019526.html">http://lists.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol-kli.org/2022-March/019526.html</a>)<br><br>****** Previous thread starts ******<br><br>jIH:<br>> I want to say:<br>> We fought the romulans during the second and third century<br>> So I write:<br>> qaStaHvIS vatlh DIS poH cha'DIch wejDIch je, romuluSngan DISuv<br>> Would joining ordinals by {je} or any other conjunction be considered to be <br>> correct?<br>SuStel:<br>> Dunno if we have evidence, but numbers of all sorts are noun-like enough that<br>> I have no trouble treating them like nouns, even if they're not being used in the > way that TKD describes using numbers as nouns.<br>> If you want to be certain of correctness, you could of course say qaStaHvIS <br>> vatlh DIS poH cha'DIch, vatlh DIS poH wejDIch je.But I wouldn't bother.<div><br></div><div>****** Previous thread ends ******</div><div><br></div><div>I was going to ask whether we can join numbers used for numbering such as:</div><div><br></div><div>flood torpedo tubes one and two</div><div>DuS wa' cha' je tIbuy'choHmoH</div><div><br></div><div>However, I think this must be pretty straightforward, since it's just {wa'} and {cha'} being placed after the noun instead of being placed before it.</div><div><br></div><div>So I'm just writing this as a separate thread for the purpose of archiving this matter, thus avoiding to be asking about it again in the future. <br><br>-- <br>Dana'an<br><a href="https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/">https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/</a><br>Ζεὺς ἦν, Ζεὺς ἐστίν, Ζεὺς ἔσσεται· ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ</div></div></div></div>
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