tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 24 13:48:48 1994

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Re: Grist for the mill..

ghItlh charghwI''e':

>I suspect that she would just be called {ta'} with no reference
>to gender. If you HAD to make such a reference, I'd build the

Slight interruption here. If you look into the context, there is a king, who
is the actual ruler, and then the queen, who doesn't actually rule, but only
carries the responsibilities and privileges of being the wife to the ruler.
So gender is important.

>compound {be'ta'}. I know that ~mark might interpret that as
>"empiror of women" or "women's empiror", but the other gender
>related terms all have {be'} as their first syllable, not last.
>I would also not want to be the person who made a pun on the
>empiress "not accomplishing" anything...

Well, actually the gender distinguishing terms that have {be'}/{loD} first
have a second syllable which does not have an independent meaning. I'm
talking about {be'nal} and {be'nI}. But the words which have the
gender-determining part last have a first part the is an independent word.
Here I mean {puqbe'}.

But {ta'be'} is nothing more than a shortening of {ta'be'nal}, if you can
live with that.

>charghwI'

Guido#1, Leader of All Guidos

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