tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Dec 14 04:47:41 1995
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Re: Colors? What colors?
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Colors? What colors?
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 07:48:23 -0500
vIghItlhpu':
>>>taghwI'mey vImISmoHbe'meH mu'mey vIghItlhpu'bogh vIlaDnIS.
>> ^^^
>>Qu'vatlh! DaH taghwI'pu'vaD jItlhIjnIS. bong chaH vItIchpu'.
>> ^^^
ghItlh peHruS:
>Refering to TKD p.22 Sec. 3.3.2 I read "The suffix {-pu'} can be used to
>indicate plurality for Klingons, Terrans, Romulans, Vulcans, and so on, but
>not for lower animals of any kind, plants, inanimate objects, electromagnetic
>or other beams or waves, etc."
toH. tI HaDI'baH joq chaH taghwI'pu''e' 'e' DaHar'a'?
tera'nganpu' chaH taghwI'pu''e' vISovbogh.
>I think that computers, robots, films, machinery, and the like belong in the
>non-sentient category and should take Type 4 suffixes such as {-wIj} and the
>Type 2 suffix {-mey}. When refering actors on film, the actor takes the
>suffix {-pu'}; but the film itself, and computer processors, do not.
<-wIj> <-mey> je vIlo'chugh, not bIH vIlanHa'. <-wIjmey> vIghItlhbe'bej.
<-wI'mey> vIghItlhchugh, chaq wot mojaQ 'oH <-wI'>'e'. bIyaj'a'?
>toH Hol jatlhlaHbogh jan DamojmoHpu' 'ej taghlI'pu' chaH qaHoy'
> 'ach janmey vISovbogh, Hol jatlhlaHbe' bIH ghotpu' rurbe' bIH
pablIj DatI'nISlaw'. <Hol jatlhlaHbogh jan DamojmoHpu'> vIyajchu'be'.
lughlaw' qechlIj, 'ach taghDu'wIj vIqelbe'. taghwI'pu' vIqeltaH.
jItlhuHmeH taghDu'wIj vIlo'. taghtaH taghwI'pu'. ghojchoH chaH.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj