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Re: Klingon WOTD: laQ (verb)

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: laQ (verb)
• Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:44:17 -0400
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>    chuyDaH yIlaQ
>    Fire the thrusters! (TKD)

Note {yI-} indicating {chuyDaH} is singular.

>    muDDaq 'eDSeHcha lulaQlu'bogh: jav
>    Atmospheric Take-Off/Landing Thrusters – 6 (KBoP)

Note {lu-} indicating {'eDSeHcha} is plural.

It looks like when inherent plurals are explicitly counted, they  
become grammatically plural.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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