charghwI':
Note that a half deck could be something not half as BIG as a deck. It could be something half as HIGH as a deck.
You're right. Indeed, we didn't consider this option in this thread thus far.. charghwI':
My guess is that somebody at ViaComm asked Okrand to translate “Half Deck” for someone who didn’t know what a half deck was, and Okrand, who probably ALSO doesn’t know what a half deck is, came up with a word-by-word translation without giving it as much thought as we do.
I don't know about that.. Many times I've come across things I don't understand, and my instinctive reaction is that "there's no rationale behind them; they happened by luck/randomly". And soon, when someone explains them to me, I realize that there was indeed a reason/explanation behind them. What I like in De'vID's explanation of the way {bID} is to be used, is that it explains the Ca'Non we have so far. Although, since I'm not quite sure I understood De'vID's explanation fully, that's why I wrote the pizza example earlier, an example about which I'm wondering, whether it's indeed correct.. ~ mayqel qunen'oS