On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Lawrence M. Schoen <klingonguy@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:46 AM, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Lawrence M. Schoen <klingonguy@gmail.com
wrote:
This makes me wonder how you'd respond to adding the suffix after the ordinal?
Thus, *my third ship* - *Duj wejDIchwIj*
You don't posses the "third" though, you posses the ship.
DujwIj wejDIch - Out of the collection of ships that are mine, the third one is the topic
You make a compelling argument. And I confess I just popped into the middle of this thread so I'll yield to your assertion that "the third one is the topic"
And yet, as has been pointed out, a number (in this case, an ordinal number) is a noun. So I have to disagree with your point that you "don't posses [sic] the "third" though, you posses [sic] the ship."
Duj wejDIchwIj - there are many ships, but third one is mine.
To me {wejDIch} isn't a thing that can be owned by someone, it's simply a way to count things in a list. Putting a possessive on it just seems strange to my mind. "My four children" would be {loS puqwI'}. If I label {puqwI'} as the first, second, third, etc, they are still {puqwI'}, they are just {puqwI' wa'DIch, puqwI' cha'DIch, puqwI' wejDIch, etc}. Duj law' tu'lu' 'a Duj wejDIch 'oH DujwIj'e'. - There are many ships, but the third one is mine.