8 Sep
2017
8 Sep
'17
11:01 a.m.
On 8 September 2017 at 16:42, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se> wrote:
I don't understand. If you don't know how many of something there is, how could you know whether it was singular or plural?
Well, in English, we (usually) treat "how many NOUN:s" as grammatically plural:
"How many people have seen it?" (not "How many person has seen it?") "How many are there?" (not "How many is there?")
Presumably, Klingon has some similar rule, or at least a rule-of-thumb for how to deal with this uncertainty.
Based on the "no plural suffix" rule, I would assume that the rule is to treat it as singular, but it's not explicitly stated. -- De'vID