On 10/4/2017 2:33 PM, qurgh lungqIj wrote:

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Lawrence M. Schoen <klingonguy@gmail.com> wrote:

Imagine a situation in which a Romulan challenges me to a duel. It's an honor thing, so naturally, I accept, but I hold the Romulan in such contempt that instead of asking someone like you to serve as my second, I instead assign that role to my pet mugato. Would I not describe the mugato as cha'DIchwIj?

A {cha'DIch} in that context is a special title for a specific role though, it's not just counting something. 

It doesn't have to be. Since numbers can act like nouns