SuStel:
> The phrase Dochmey mI' is talking about
> numbers, not things;mI' is the head noun.
Impressive analysis. I could have never thought that something like this is happening.
However I need to ask you:
Does this mean that in any noun-noun construction, the head noun is the second one ?
qunnoH
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'
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."
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.
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