Actually, Jeremy, I think you were on to something. {patlh} with a plural subject merely means "they are ranked," but adding {jaSHa'} you get "they are ranked similarly." Given the right context this might also be translated "they compare" or "they are comparable."
{jaS patlh} by the same token could be translated as "they are not comparable." (I also just noticed that {jaS} or {jaSHa'} in these cases could refer either to the outcome implied by {patlh} or the process of becoming {patlh}.)

~mIp'av

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 7:21 AM, David Holt <kenjutsuka@live.com> wrote:

DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'

Yeah.  Never mind.  I had just woken up and I guess my brain wasn't working right.  It makes complete sense for the OBJECT of {patlhmoH} to be plural with the intent of comparing them.  But for some reason my brain read that the SUBJECTS were being compared and that didn't make any sense at all.  I'm a little more awake now and reading words correctly again.


Jeremy

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On 16 February 2018 at 12:35, David Holt <kenjutsuka@live.com> wrote:
Is he saying {patlh} can also mean "compare" or {patlhmoH} can mean "compare"? The statement about "compare" comes right after {patlhmoH}, but it seems odd syntactically and it seems odd to say "of course, the object of the verb is plural."

However, I could easily see {patlh} with a plural subject to mean, "they compare".  Could you clarify?

It seems pretty clear that he's saying {patlhmoH} means "compare" with the things to be compared listed as the object.

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