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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">De’vId, thanks for explaining the pun. Here are some more hints WRT non-specific numbers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">vatlh DIS poH century
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SaD DIS poH millennium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">netlh DIS poH period of 10,000 years, myriad?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In the qepHom 2019 booklet we read that “In
<a href="http://www.klingonwiki.net/bin/view/En/Paqbatlh">paq'batlh</a>, {SaD law'} was used to say thousands. You can not say {SaDmey} etc.” Examples:<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">tlheDDI' quvmoHmeH veng HeHDaq lutlha' SaD law' nuvpu'
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thousands followed him to the edge of the city, to bid him farewell. (PB)<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ngIq tonSaw' lo' SaD law' San chenmoH qeylIS wej boghbogh
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> nuvpu' San chenmoH <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In one single move, Kahless decided the fate of thousands,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> and those to come. (PB)<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">AFAIK we haven’t seen {'op} “some, an unknown or unspecified quantity” used with a number-forming element, but we have seen it with time units :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">'op ben [once, some years in the past, some years ago]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> 'op ben pa' Dab ngan 'ej chep <br>
It [the territory/lands of his father] was alive and prosperous once. (PB)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">'op pIq at some point in the future (qep’a’ 2016)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">'op ret at some point in the past (qep’a’ 2016)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">'opleS one day [in the future] (n) (PB)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(nIqolay Q, 10/17/2018): The handout from qep'a' 23 just uses {'op ret} and {'op pIq}, without any further explanations or examples involving explicit time units … I think we can assume they're fine as-is.
You don't really need to specify a time period because you're not being specific about how many of those periods there are anyway."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">--<br>
Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">=======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From: De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
<br>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 1:08 PM<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Klingon word: qemyu'po'<br>
Part of speech: noun<br>
Definition: cerebral palsy<br>
Source: qep'a' 30 [2023]<br>
_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The campaign to raise awareness of Cerebral Palsy is called "Millions of Reasons" ('op 'uy' meq).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This might give us a hint as to how to use the number-forming powers-of-ten without a specific number, i.e., how to say "tens", "thousands", etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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