ghunchu'wI':

I don't understand the question. What sort of answer would you expect? If you can tell me how you expect to quantify your love, I can help you ask what quantity of it you have.

In order to quantify love, of course we can't use numbers, however we certainly can say: I love (whatever) a lot I am crazy about something I slightly like whatever ..and so on there are variations of intensity as far as feelings are concerned, and when we ask someone "how much do you love/hate/like/dislike etc", we inquire about the intensity of these feelings. anyway.. after 9 hours of shut-eye (as americans say), I realized there is a way to work-around this problem. pelaD ! lets say we want to ask "how much do you love klingon ?". what are we trying to do ? we want to force the recipient to tell us "how much he loves". obviously we can't use the {'ar} because this can only refer to nouns. but we *can* say: {tlhIngan Hol DaparHa'qu''a'} or even {tlhIngan Hol DaparHa'chu''a'}. essentialy we ask someone: "do you like klingon a lot ?" or "do you perfectly like klingon ?" so, the recipient of the question is forced to reply either accepting that he likes klingon a lot, or saying that he dislikes it. or maybe even he will use more sentences describing in detail the "if he likes/dislikes and how much". whatever the case, I think that by the use of {tlhIngan Hol DaparHa'qu''a'} and/or {tlhIngan Hol DaparHa'chu''a'} we're forcing an answer which will define the "how much". either directly with a simple "yes", or indirectly through an answer which will entail more sentences. problem solved ! qunnoH jan puqloD ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta' On 10 Dec 2016 4:30 am, "Ed Bailey" <bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com> wrote:

When you ask someone how much you like something, are you asking them to describe said liking?

Then how about something like {/souvlaki/ DaparHa' 'e' yIDel!}

Or if you want to assign numerical values...

/souvlaki/ Daparqu' 'e' 'oSchugh wa' 'ej /souvlaki/ DaSopmeH bIHeghqang 'e' 'oSchugh wa' maH, SoHvaD /souvlaki/ Delbogh mI' yIngu'!

...though as ridiculous as that "on a scale from 1 to 10" stuff is to many humans, just imagine how idiotic it might sound to Klingons!

~mIp'av

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muDuQ gharlIq 'oQqar. chay' vIjuvlaH? wa' 'uj 'ab qol'om muDuQghach net jalchugh, tIqqu' gharlIq 'oQqar muDuQghach; tera' maSDaj je joj rur. parmaqqaywI' SoH 'ach parmaqvam vIjuvlaHbe', meqvammo'; parmaqwIj tIq law' chuq'e' ghoSpu'bogh ngeHbej 'otlh wa'DIch tIq puS. 'ej 'otlh vItlha' 'ej 'otlh vItap, vaj pumDI' 'u', Daqvam HurghDaq nItebHa' mamob. ghopwIj Da'uchqangchugh. ________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2016 1:26:31 AM To: tlhIngan-Hol Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] How do I say "how much I love (whatever)" ? On Dec 9, 2016 21:31, "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun@gmail.com<mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com>> wrote: if I want to ask: "how much do I love souvlakia ?" then how do I say it ? I can't find a way to say this with {'ar} because this must follow a noun; but here the "how much" refers to the verb "love": "how much do I love.." so, what do we do here ? Consider {chay'}. -- De'vID