tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 17 03:55:52 1994
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Re: plurality of everything
- From: "Mark Nudelman" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: plurality of everything
- Date: 17 May 1994 12:26:14 U
Reply to: RE>>plurality of everything
jatlh charghwI':
>I suggest that the rule in TKD 3.3.2, page 24 should
>take care of this. "Inherently plural nouns are treated
>grammatically as singular nouns in that singular pronouns are
>used to refer to them..." I vote for {Hoch luSov...}
Hmm, interesting. This seems reasonable, but it leaves me
rather puzzled about a sentence I wrote a couple of days ago:
chaq mu'ghommeymajDaq 'Iw wIchaghnIS Hoch .
If Hoch is singular, then wIchaghnIS is incorrect. But it doesn't
make sense to try to say "We all should ..." without using a first
person plural prefix, right? "vIchaghnIS Hoch" is nonsense! On
the other hand, I was a little uneasy about the apposition of the
subject in this sentence anyway. How would you say "We all" as
a subject?
--nachHegh
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