De’vId, thanks for explaining the pun. Here are some more hints WRT non-specific numbers: vatlh DIS poH century SaD DIS poH millennium netlh DIS poH period of 10,000 years, myriad? In the qepHom 2019 booklet we read that “In paq'batlh<http://www.klingonwiki.net/bin/view/En/Paqbatlh>, {SaD law'} was used to say thousands. You can not say {SaDmey} etc.” Examples: tlheDDI' quvmoHmeH veng HeHDaq lutlha' SaD law' nuvpu' Thousands followed him to the edge of the city, to bid him farewell. (PB) ngIq tonSaw' lo' SaD law' San chenmoH qeylIS wej boghbogh nuvpu' San chenmoH In one single move, Kahless decided the fate of thousands, and those to come. (PB) 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 : 'op ben [once, some years in the past, some years ago] 'op ben pa' Dab ngan 'ej chep It [the territory/lands of his father] was alive and prosperous once. (PB) 'op pIq at some point in the future (qep’a’ 2016) 'op ret at some point in the past (qep’a’ 2016) 'opleS one day [in the future] (n) (PB) (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." -- Voragh ======================================================= From: De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 1:08 PM Klingon word: qemyu'po' Part of speech: noun Definition: cerebral palsy Source: qep'a' 30 [2023] _______________________________________________ The campaign to raise awareness of Cerebral Palsy is called "Millions of Reasons" ('op 'uy' meq). 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.