Do we know if we can use Hoch/HochHom on inherently plural nouns?
Could we write {Hoch cha} for "all torpedos", and {HochHom cha} for "most torpedos"?
Or {cha Hoch} for "all of the torpedos", and {cha HochHom} for "most of the torpedos"?
I don't believe we've ever seen Hoch or HochHom applied on either side of an inherently plural noun or an "inherently singular noun."
If I had to guess, I'd guess as follows:
Hoch peng each torpedo (considered individually)
Hoch cha all torpedoes (considered collectively)
peng Hoch all of the torpedo (a complete
torpedo)
peng HochHom most of the torpedo (an incomplete
torpedo)
HochHom cha most of the torpedoes (not every torpedo
in the set)
Not meaningful:
HochHom peng
cha Hoch
cha HochHom
I can see a case being made for cha Hoch and cha HochHom being used for all of the torpedoes and most of the torpedoes, respectively, instead of Hoch cha and HochHom cha, in that you can consider cha to be the singular set of torpedoes, and having a complete set would be all of the set, and having an incomplete set would be having most of the set.
And, of course, I'm not considering the scattered all about
versions of these words.
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