ok, pause and rewind.. SuStel
Dochmey HochHom luyajHa' nuvpu' people misunderstand the things' majority People misunderstand the majority. The majority of what? Things. There are things, and people misunderstand the majority.
I got lost again; lets approach this from another angle.. And lets take this step by step, in order to discover what it is I'm actually not understanding here. Let me ask you this: sentence A: people misunderstand the things' majority sentence B: people misunderstand a/the majority of things Forget klingon for a moment; In english, what is the difference between sentence A and sentence B ? Is there one to start with ? The only difference I'm able to see is that sentence A sounds somewhat awkward. That aside, I can't see any other difference. qunnoH On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 6:40 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
ok, thanks. finally I understand..
qunnoH jan puqloD
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 6:36 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
On 11/8/2016 11:26 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
So, -and correct me if my understanding is wrong-, the {Dochmey HochHom} is grammaticaly identical to the {Dochmey mI'}. But we tend to accept the {Dochmey HochHom} as being correct -in order to convey our intented meaning-, because the {HochHom} is acting like an adjectival verb (although it is not).
No. Dochmey HochHom and Dochmey mI' are indeed grammatically identical (except you've been using mI' as a plural, so it's an implicit Dochmey mI'mey). We are not making exceptions to accommodate the meaning we want.
Dochmey HochHom luyajHa' nuvpu' people misunderstand the things' majority
People misunderstand the majority. The majority of what? Things. There are things, and people misunderstand the majority.
Dochmey mI' yajHa' nuvpu' people misunderstand the things' numbers
People misunderstand the numbers, the quantity. The numbers of what? Things. There are things, and people misunderstand how many of them there are.
This was Ed's original, correct objection. Dochmey mI' doesn't mean "a lot of things" or "several things." It means "the number of things," "the count of things," "how many things there are."
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