tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 21 13:24:41 1996
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Huy'Du' le'
- From: "Robyn Stewart" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Huy'Du' le'
- Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:19:49 PST
- Organization: NLK Consultants, Inc.
- Priority: normal
Peter Watkins wrote:
& >2. My eyebrows are smaller than those of a Klingon's
& > -> Huy'meywI' mach law' tlhIngan mach puS
ghunchu'wI' noted:
& "My poetic-referenced-eyebrows are smaller than a Klingon."
& (I should hope so!) Eyebrows count as body parts, so they take the
& special plural suffix {-Du'} unless you want intentionally to break
& that particular grammatical rule for poetic effect. You also ought
& to refer to {tlhIngan Huy'Du'} in the second part of the phrase,
& since you're not comparing your eyebrows to a whole Klingon.
Huy'Du' le'qu' ghajlaw' Peter.
Note also that that Peter Watkins' eyebrows are capable of
communication: -wI' is used instead of -wIj to indicate the
possessive. (I have this marvellous image of not-quite Klingon-sized
eyebrows, wandering about and chatting amongst themselves.) Even
though the eyebrows are attached to a language-using being, Huy'
should take the dumb -wIj suffix.
wovwI'