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RE: yeesh. right. wrong. jISaHbe'! (was Re: Correct me if I'm wrong but..)


> When I call our new puppy "he" rather than "it", when I speak to him, and
> "interact" as if he understood, I convey my high estimation of or hopes
> for his intelligence. If I were to call a group of warriors SuvwI'mey
> (assuming I had a clue and a bucket to carry it in) I convey my low regard
> for them.

No, all you would convey is the fact that they are scattered all about.
There's nothing derogatory about that.  I believe the only derogatory
inference comes about with the possessive suffixes, not the plural ones.
So, /SoSlIj/ is derogatory, /SoSmey/ is not.

If I am wrong (I don't keep a copy of TKD at work, can you believe it?),
please correct me.

>    joel anderson

--Holtej

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