tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 17 23:58:01 2000
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Re: plurals (was Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day)
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> > The irregular plurals themselves ({ngop} "plates", {chuyDaH}
> > "thrusters") can be called inherently plural, but that's not what you
> > said.
Will Martin:
> Well, using Okrand's terminology, these are not irregular plurals. They
> are inherantly plural nouns with other nouns referring to singular
> examples of the item grouped with the inherantly plural noun.
So you'd claim {ngop} would be something like "dinner setting" and
{chuyDaH} would be, let's see, "cluster"?
Jiri, who isn't really here yet and will introduce himself... eventually
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