tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 31 19:51:33 1997
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Re: KLBC: "law'" "puS" je
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: "law'" "puS" je
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 22:51:32 -0500 (EST)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message fromMarian Schwartz on Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:16:38 -0800 (PST))
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>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:16:38 -0800 (PST)
>From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
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>pIpyuS pach DaSop DaneHchugh pIpyuS puS DaghornIS.
>If you want to eat pipius claw, you'll have to break a few pipiuses.
>
>qoror here. I have a question. Do you always have to use the plural suffix
>when something has "law'" or "pus?" Logically, it should, but, as shown above,
>"pIpyuS puS:" "a few pipiuses."
>
>nuq boQub?
TKD, section 3.2.2:
"Unlike English, however, the lack of a specific suffix for plural does
not always indicate that the noun is singular. In Klingon, a noun
without a plural suffix may still refer to more than one entity. The
plurality is indicated by a pronoun, whether a verb prefix or a full
word, or by context."
See also the rest of the paragraph.
Klingon nouns are not obligatorily marked for number. Since "puS" implies
by its meaning that the subject is plural, you don't need "-mey".
~mark
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