[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: pagh

[Lieven]

ja' QeS:
>> {pagh} "nothing, none" (n), {pagh} "no one" (n) and {pagh} "zero"
>> (num) are almost certainly the same lexeme, so can probably be

ja' Voragh:
> I take your point, but one shouldn't confuse them when translating from Klingon into another language... or relying on an online translation program!  E.g.

As usual, this is again an english language problem. I guess that 
Klingons do not think about the different meanings. Many languages have 
words with different meanings.

pa'vo' pagh leghlu'chugh, vaj pagh vIlegh: pagh ghot, pagh nuv. 
jISImtaHvIS mI' <pagh> vIlo'chugh, vaj pagh Doch 'oS je. pImbe'.

pa'vo' jupwI' pagh leghlu' 'e' vIHarbe'. vengvam Dabbe' 'e' vISovmo'. 
vengvamDaq ghIQchugh ghaH vaj SovlaHbe' mebpa'mey vu'wI'. :-)

Quvar.

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