On 11/8/2016 2:47 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
mIp'av:
Dochmey mI' sounds like a direct translation of "number of things." Perhaps Klingons use such a phrase, perhaps not. I used the {Dochmey mI'} in order to say "a number of things", because I read somewhere at the klingon wiki, that we can use the {mI'} this way. In fact here is the direct copy-paste from my notes:
----- quote start ----- mI' number (of), quantity tlhInganpu' Hem mI' nIb an equal number of proud Klingons. ----- quote end -----
I had to look this up. It's from the page "Revelations of new rules inside /paq'batlh./" <http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/PaqbatlhNewRules> The phrase *Dochmey mI'* is talking about numbers, not things; *mI'* is the head noun. The phrase /number of things/ is talking about things. In your text, you were interested in the things, of which there are a number, not in the things' numbers, how many things there are. *Dochmey mI'* is an overly literal attempt to translate an English colloquialism. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name