tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 02 12:49:06 1998
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Re: SoSwI' be'nI'
According to David Trimboli:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Qov <[email protected]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Date: Saturday, January 31, 1998 10:58 PM
> Subject: Re: SoSwI' be'nI'
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> >}MO says in the discussion: "Note that the word for 'spirit,' {qa'}, takes
> >}the plural sluffix {-pu'}, which is used for beings capable of using
> >}language. Spirits do speak."
> >
> >But presumably you could use {-mey} for spirits that didn't.
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> Why? Some words are inherently treated one way or the other. For example,
> somewhere in KGT (I've really got to type it up!) there's a discussion of
> table legs, which are called {'uSDu'}, even though they are not body parts.
> {qa'pu'} might ALWAYS be {qa'pu'}, even if they don't speak. Or maybe there
> are no {qa'pu'} which do not speak.
While I was walking dead, my spirit did not speak. That is
actually the best other way to describe the sense of walking
dead. The body spoke. The spirit did not.
Does such a temporary state cause one to change a suffix? I'm
not sure. For this time in question, my spirit was unable to
find its voice. It was not a choice. It was a condition.
Do' jatlhqa' qa'wI'.
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