tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 26 17:09:11 1998
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Re: Inherently Plural Nouns
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Inherently Plural Nouns
- Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 17:05:37 -0700
At 12:15 98-05-26 -0700, charghwI' wrote:
}Hmmmm.
}
}I wonder about this list. The problem I have with it is that
}the {-mey} suffix to indicate "scattered all about" meaning
}applies to inherently plural nouns WITH A SINGULAR COUNTERPART,
}like {DoS/ray'}, and the {-mey} is applied to the SINGULAR
}version. {DoSmey} means "targets scattered all about". Who
}knows WHAT {ray'mey} means? I don't.
See page 33 in KGT. Okrand characterizes ngopmey as "plateses" -- babytalk.
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